DirecTV Says Venu Still Anti-Competitive Following Disney Deal

Pay-TV provider DirecTV Inc. wrote in a letter to a federal judge Thursday that a recent settlement between Walt Disney Co. and FuboTV Inc. doesn’t resolve antitrust issues around Venu, a planned sports streaming service.

DirecTV said Venu, a joint venture between Disney, Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., would offer content that DirecTV and other distributors aren’t allowed to, and that the company is concerned about the impact Venu would have on competition for sports programming. Satellite TV provider EchoStar Corp. wrote a similar letter on Tuesday.

Fubo said Jan. 6 that it had agreed to ...