{"id":289589,"date":"2025-11-13T18:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/289589\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:30:10","slug":"sports-rights-will-cause-1b-bump-in-disney-content-spending-nextl-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/289589\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Rights Will Cause $1B Bump In Disney Content Spending Nextl Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/disney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_disney\" data-tag=\"disney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney<\/a> will be increasing its overall <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/content-spending\/\" id=\"auto-tag_content-spending\" data-tag=\"content-spending\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">content spending<\/a> by $1 billion to $24 billion in fiscal 2026, largely due to growth in the cost of rights for marquee sports like the NBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe company disclosed the projection during its fiscal fourth-quarter <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/earnings\/\" id=\"auto-tag_earnings\" data-tag=\"earnings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earnings<\/a> release. CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bob-iger\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bob-iger\" data-tag=\"bob-iger\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Iger<\/a> and CFO <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hugh-johnston\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hugh-johnston\" data-tag=\"hugh-johnston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hugh Johnston<\/a> explained the outlook in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thewaltdisneycompany.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/11\/q4-fy25-executive-commentary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">commentary to investors<\/a> put out with the financials. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWe remain disciplined in our approach to capital allocation,\u201d the letter said. The $1 billion bump in combined entertainment and sports content spending is coming \u201cas we continue to invest in high-quality sports rights at ESPN, new and existing franchises at our film studio, and television content.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe 2025-26 NBA season, which began last month, marks the start of 11-year rights deals between the league and new media partners Amazon and NBCUniversal as well as incumbent Disney\/ESPN. The renewal will see Disney pay $2.6 billion a year, roughly triple the average annual value of the prior deal. Since the new contract was agreed to last year, it\u2019s hardly a surprise to any investor who has been paying attention. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDuring a conference call with Wall Street analysts Thursday, Iger and Johnston were asked about the benefits of investing such a large sum in the NBA. \u201cBecause of the timing of the rights costs, it does create a little bit of bumpiness over the course of the year,\u201d Johnston said of the outlay, saying the main impact will be felt in the latter half of fiscal 2026. \u201cThe NBA is obviously a phenomenal property,\u201d he added. As with the NFL, the league draws \u201cscale audience, which is obviously super-attractive to advertisers and therefore is strategically beneficial to us as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney will be increasing its overall content spending by $1 billion to $24 billion in fiscal 2026, largely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[46632,152106,3716,8084,88,152107,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-289589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bob-iger","9":"tag-content-spending","10":"tag-disney","11":"tag-earnings","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-hugh-johnston","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}