The dynamics of how live sports and news are consumed has just changed forever, as ribbon-cutting ceremonies took place for both ESPN’s new D2C streaming service and Fox One. But is it purely a coincidence that both were launched on the exact same day on August 21, 2025? Would it not make more strategic sense for parent company Disney to stagger the two streaming launches, to avoid the buzz fizzling out too soon? The short answer is no. This is a classic bundling playbook and a precursor to a return to bloated cable TV packages. The only difference is that content is being delivered through a different pipe. Two weeks before the respective launches, Disney declared that ESPN D2C and…