The Walt Disney Company, which recently reached the headlines since the 17 September decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show on ABC, said on Tuesday that it would increase the price of its streaming services – including Disney+ and bundles with Hulu and ESPN.
On October 21, the costs of a Disney+ and Hulu package will increase From $ 10.99 to $ 12.99, while an advertising -free plan with both still costs $ 19.99. Plans with Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, with advertisements, were previously $ 16.99 and will soon be $ 19.99, per Disney’s website.
Disney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Consumers have been pronounced in recent days about Disney’s handling of Kimmel, Respond by canceling Their subscriptions to Disney+ and bundles with Hulu and ESPN Select. A spokesperson for the company Bloomberg told That the price increases were planned for months and were not related to the Kimmelcontroverse.
The comments that culminated in the Kimmel suspension came earlier this month, in the aftermath of the death of Charlie Kirk. Kimmel said in his show that the Make America Great Again Movement “desperately tried to characterize this boy that Charlie Kirk killed as something other than one of them, and to do everything they can to score political points.”
A few days later, Nexstar Media Group, who owns 28 ABC branches, announced that it pulled Kimmel’s show because his comments were “offensive and insensitive at a critical moment in our national political discourse”.
Disney, also confronted with political pressure from the Federal Communications Commission, followed the example by suspending the show. The New York Times Reported that the “Disney+” Cancel campaign caused more “subscriber -churn” than previous efforts to boycott Netflix about some of his controversies.
This is the fourth consecutive year that Disney+ has increased its streaming prices since the launch of Disney+ in 2019. It will follow an example with many other streaming services, including Netflix and Peacock, both of which announced price increases earlier this year.
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