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In the short time between ABC announcing that Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show was on hiatus and reinstating the late-night host days later, parent company Disney dropped another bit of news that will make viewers unhappy: As of October 21, the prices of Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN Select (formerly known as ESPN+) are all going up.
Given that many consumers were already threatening to cancel their subscriptions in the brief time that Kimmel was off the air, this price hike was inopportune timing, to say the least. And while the spectre of a massive consumer boycott has likely cooled with Kimmel ba