{"id":404541,"date":"2025-11-25T22:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/404541\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T22:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:17:13","slug":"nbcuniversal-fubo-lash-out-amid-carriage-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/404541\/","title":{"rendered":"NBCUniversal, Fubo Lash Out Amid Carriage Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNBCUniversal<\/a> and Fubo<\/a> are swatting each other amid a carriage battle that saw the NBCU networks go dark on the virtual multi-channel video provider Nov. 21.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s the latest carriage fight<\/a> in the industry and while Fubo is far from one of the biggest distributors it is now owned by Disney in a deal that closed last last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFubo has chosen to drop NBCUniversal programming despite being offered the same terms agreed to by hundreds of other distributors,\u201d said an NBCUniversal spokesperson in a statement Tuesday. \u201cUnfortunately, this is par for the course for Fubo \u2014 they\u2019ve dropped numerous networks in recent years at the expense of their customers, who continue to lose content.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNBCUniversal said its rates and terms have been accepted by Hulu + Live TV, which has been under the same ownership as Fubo since the two services merged in October. It stressed a successful record in the industry of completing carriage agreements without\u00a0network drops, noting that Fubo, instead, has dropped a number partners.<\/p>\n

\n\tFubo, for its part, insists it\u2019s been engaged in good faith negotiations with NBCUniversal \u201cto renew its long-standing content agreement to distribute their networks to consumers [but] as a result of Fubo not agreeing to NBCU\u2019s demands, which would hurt Fubo consumers, NBCU pulled its networks\u201d after the duo\u2019s latest contract expired November 20.<\/p>\n

\n\tUntil today, the two sides had remained mum on the situation.<\/p>\n

\n\tFubo took a dig at NBCU parent\u2019s Comcast<\/a> planned spinoff of its linear television networks into a separate company called Versant, an operation that\u2019s expected to close early next year.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c<\/strong>Despite them not being worth the cost to Fubo subscribers, Fubo offered to distribute Versant channels for one year. NBCU wants Fubo to sign a multi-year deal \u2014 well past the time the Versant channels will be owned by a separate company. NBCU wants Fubo subscribers to subsidize these channels,\u201d Fubo said.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt also claimed NBCU is blocking Fubo\u2019s so-called skinny sports bundle. \u201cEarlier this year, Fubo launched Fubo Sports, a cost-effective sports-focused service. NBCU wants Fubo to add expensive, non-sports channels, which will drive up the price paid by Fubo subscribers \u2026 We hope NBCU reconsiders their stance, or we\u2019ll be forced to move forward without them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBCUniversal and Fubo are swatting each other amid a carriage battle that saw the NBCU networks go dark…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":404542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[191068,18422,171,168102,16629,191069,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-404541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-carriage-fight","9":"tag-comcast","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-fubo","12":"tag-nbcuniversal","13":"tag-skinny-bundle","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115612656917927903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}