Year one is in the books for Fox One and ESPN Unlimited, two DTC services that launched with a shared emphasis on live sports—and a shared interest in keeping one foot in the traditional pay TV world. Both are now refining their strategies around authentication, bundling and subscriber retention as they head into another football season. Meanwhile, Charter is dealing with a different kind of distribution complication after acquiring Cox, filing a lawsuit against Scripps over whether its retransmission consent agreement covers stations in the newly expanded footprint.