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Netflix...Hulu...OperaVision...Broadway HD. With The service was released in the United States, Canada, the
various cultural media streaming services springing up seemingly every day, it was only a matter of time before Disney jumped on the streaming bandwagon, though some Disney fans feared it might never happen.
With apologies to T. S. Eliot, these fears were unfounded, as Disney+ has entered not with a whimper, but a bang! Disney+ has taken the Internet by storm, providing film fans easy access to not only Disney films, but those under the Disney umbrella: Pixar, Marvel, 20th Century Studios (formerly 20th Century Fox), Searchlight Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Lucasfilm and National Geographic. Add to these a number of new series that have already built a tremendous fan base, not to mention characters that have danced, strolled or crept their way into hearts in a very short time, including “The Child,” the cuddliest sidekick since Olaf! (Sorry, Baby Groot.)
It is hard to imagine anyone not having heard of Disney+ at this point, but as of this writing, it is not yet accessible worldwide, so in short, Disney+ is the newest streaming service to hit the virtual airwaves, providing members with vast amounts of Disney-based content.
Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand in November. It is gradually being rolled out across the globe over course of 2020, arriving in a large part of Western Europe, including Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom in March; most of the remainder of Western Europe in the summer of 2020; and Latin America and Eastern Europe next fall. Release dates in Asia and the remainder of Oceania have not been officially scheduled, but are slated to occur over the next two years.
So how did all of this get started? Among its many other holdings, Disney had a 33% stake in the streaming company BAMTech, LLC. In August 2017, Disney acquired majority ownership of BAMTech, paying $1.58 billion to Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) in order to gain an additional 42% stake in the company.
This new holding was originally used to bolster Disney- owned ESPN’s content, expanding their programming of MLB, the National Hockey League, Major League soccer, Grand Slam tennis (Wimbledon and the Australian, French and U.S. Open tournaments), as well as college and international sports. But even then, Disney+ was on the
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