The rise of sports skinny bundles led to The Walt Disney Company's decision to back out of Venu Sports, the joint streamer between Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox. CEO Bob Iger revealed the reasoning during the company's first quarter earnings call for 2025.

"Look what essentially happened is, after the decision was made and we started to implement the launch of Venu, the emergence of these skinnier bundles surfaced, and Venu basically looked redundant to us.

Bob Iger did his best to hype up the new ESPN streaming service Flagship while discussing Disney’s quarterly earnings with analysts. The future looks bright for ESPN. The sports network and its sibling channels just had theirbest ratings month in a decade,