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During today's Disney earnings call for their second quarter of 2025, Disney CEO Bob Iger and CFO Hugh Johnson commented on the acquisition of the WWE major events rights as part of their strategy for ESPN going forward:
"We are building ESPN into the preeminent digital sports platform with the launch of our highly anticipated Direct-to-Consumer sports offering on August 21. Our just-announced plans with the NFL would, upon closing, expand ESPN’s programming and content offerings for sports fans. And today we announced that ESPN will be the exclusive home for WWE Premium Live Events.”
The new ESPN platform would replace the existing ESPN+ as the major ESPN hub for streaming.
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