Disney’s ESPN Holds Preliminary Talks for Web-Based TV
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Walt Disney Co.’s ESPN sports network has held preliminary talks to offer programming on a Web-based TV service like those proposed by Google Inc., Sony Corp. and Intel Corp.
An Internet TV provider would have to pay as much or more than cable and satellite services, President John Skipper said today at ESPN’s campus in Bristol, Connecticut. He declined to specify the companies ESPN has spoken with.