TV’s annual Upfront Week is supposed to be devoted to TV-industry build-up. Instead, executives have unveiled new and ambitious plans that will ultimately break the whole sector down.
Three of the best-known names in TV this week announced their intent to open up new shops off the traditional screen. Disney’s ESPN, after much chatter, will put all its sports coverage and studio programming on a new direct-to-consumer streaming app that executives hope will drive a business that is more heavily dependent on broadband video outposts like Hulu and Disney+. CNN, one of the pillars of the old-school cable bundle, intends to debut two different digital shingles, one tied to
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