Walt Disney Company to Pay $50M to Settle Case Alleging Inflated Streaming Costs by Requiring Platforms to Carry ESPN

The Walt Disney Company has agreed to a proposed $50 million settlement in a case alleging that the House of Mouse inflated streaming costs by requiring platforms to carry ESPN.

The website Top Class Actions reported that subscribers to YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream claimed Disney used anticompetitive carriage agreements that forced the platforms to include ESPN, thereby raising prices above what they would have been without the channel.

ArtsTechnica said the amount of a base YouTube TV package went from $35 without the channels to $65 with them.

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