Days before the Super Bowl, the streaming-device manufacturer Roku said it is planning to block Fox apps if an agreement isn’t reached
Roku Inc. is planning to remove Fox Corp.’s apps from its streaming platform later Friday if a new distribution agreement isn’t reached by then, the latest of a growing number of disputes between channel owners and streaming-device manufacturers.
The potential removal, just as Fox is about to broadcast the Super Bowl, amounts to a streaming-era version of the pay-TV carriage disputes that have sometimes resulted in channel “blackouts” when a pay-TV provider drops a channel, leaving its subscribers with no way to watch it....
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