With the U.S. Open tennis tournament beginning Monday and college football kicking into high gear, this was supposed to be the week when some expected the Venu Sports streaming service to have a soft launch at least.
Instead, the joint venture between ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery has been sidelined by a federal court’s preliminary injunction, and its future is very much up in the air.
The Aug. 16 ruling by United States District Judge Margaret M. Garnett that Fubo was likely to be successful in proving that the joint venture would violate antitrust laws put the brakes on what was an ambitious timeline to get Venu Sports up and running. ESPN, Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery and Hulu announced their plans to offer a sports streaming service on Feb. 6. They immediately got questions from competitors and sports leagues on how it would work.
Irwin Kishner, co-chair of the Sports Law Group …