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MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company has taken a strategic call to phase out its Hotstar streaming service in North America — which is essentially targeted at audiences of South Asian descent.

The plan, first reported by Variety, which is to be completed by end-2022, is to transfer the sports programming on Hotstar to ESPN+ (which will pick up all of Hotstar’s US cricket rights), while the streamer's movies and TV series will be migrated to Hulu.

Apr 05, 2018 15:04
BRISTOL, Conn.: ESPN+, the upcoming direct-to-consumer streaming service from Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International in partnership with ESPN and featuring ESPN branded content, will launch on April 12 and offer US subscribers a line-up of live sports, original content and a library of on-demand programming – at a subscription price of $4.99 per month.