While Venu Sports is dead, the key figure at its helm now has a new job. That would be Pete Distad, named CEO of the ESPN/Fox/Warner Bros. Discovery sports joint streaming venture last March following a decade and a half at Hulu and Apple.

Pete Distad has a new gig after the shutdown of sports-streaming joint venture Venu Sports. Fox Corp. has hired Distad as CEO of the company's recently announced direct-to-consumer streaming division.

Fox Corp on Thursday named former Apple TV+ executive Pete Distad as the CEO of its upcoming subscription streaming platform, which will take on the likes of Netflix and Disney+. The Murdoch family-controlled company plans to launch the yet-to-be-named subscription-based streaming service by the end of 2025 to attract an audience outside its mainstay cable television business.

Fox has tapped Peter Distad as CEO of its recently announced direct-to-consumer streaming platform. Distad, who served as an executive at Apple for a decade following six years at Hulu, transitions to Fox from his most recent role as CEO of recently defunct joint venture Venu Sports.

The deal between Fubo and Hulu + Live TV left Distad without a job, but not for long. In his new position with Fox, Distad will oversee all aspects of the new streaming platform,

Other former Venu Sports workers are shifting over to the new direct-to-consumer project at Fox, with announcements expected in the coming weeks. This article, Pete Distad moves from Venu Sports project to Fox,

The former Apple executive was Venu’s CEO before the joint venture partners shut down the proposed sports streaming service

Former Venu CEO Pete Distad will lead Fox's new direct-to-consumer streaming platform. Distad will be CEO of the recently announced platform, which has yet to be named, but will include channels from Fox News,