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Daniel Frankel

It's Time? ESPN Making Real Plans to Stream 'Flagship' Cable Channel Direct-to-Consumer

ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro

Disney is actively making plans to take the live sports programming from ESPN's flagship pay TV channel and launch it into a direct-to-consumer streaming service, according to a Thursday report in the Wall Street Journal.  

The initiative even has a project codename, according to the paper: "Flagship." 

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