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Disney Plans Streaming Service, Bypassing Netflix

Published August 9, 2017 at 1:33 PM EDT
In this Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, photo, The Walt Disney Co. logo appears on a screen above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (Richard Drew/AP)
In this Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, photo, The Walt Disney Co. logo appears on a screen above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (Richard Drew/AP)

Disney Co. announced Tuesday that it is starting its own subscription streaming services and will pull future movies off Netflix.

CNN’s Maggie Lake (@maggielake) joins Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson to look at what’s behind the decision.

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