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HumanOrAlien t1_ixu4ufz wrote

Reply to comment by TheSeventhAnimorph in Was the fox buyout worth it for Disney? by CardiologistOwn5612

Selling their stake means losing 45 million subscribers and a lot of content that Hulu directly owns. I think they don't want to do that. Also, they are in an already competitive market and they don't want to strengthen Comcast or anyone else's position by serving Hulu on a platter. This is my theory but it also logically makes sense to me at least.

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DisturbedNocturne t1_ixu5lab wrote

Comcast has expressed interest in buying Hulu, which makes sense for them. Peacock has a fraction of the subscribers, so they could just transition everything to where the subscribers are and suddenly own one of the larger streaming services. Of course, Disney hasn't seemed interest in that, likely for the reasons you mention: Why hand all those subscribers to Comcast when they can keep them in the Disney/Hulu ecosystem?

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