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Their actual state of the art streaming tech is from BamTech Media, which was developed by Major League Baseball and sold to Disney in 2017.

Disney also owns ESPN and their streaming platform.

So between Hulu, ESPN, and Bamtech they definitely aren't new.

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I think there's a big delta between having experience with operating those services and trying to launch a service that on its first day had 10 million users and its expected to be at 100 million users in 4 years.

ESPN and MLB TV are probably pretty far from those numbers.

We did a lot more than just MLB and ESPN ;)

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