Charter Communications and the Walt Disney Co. today announced ESPN+ is now available to Spectrum TV Select Plus customers at no additional cost, as the two companies’ distribution agreement from […]
Activist investor Nelson Peltz believes Walt Disney can achieve profitability in streaming by bundling its ESPN+ online service with a larger player interested in sports, such as Netflix.
The new contract will provide featured group coverage at eight LPGA Tour events live and exclusively on ESPN+ through the 2025 season.
ESPN said it is moving its one-click, streaming multicasts of big sporting events to the featured section of the ESPN app on Apple TV and Xbox. The multicasts will also be available on the app’s ESPN Plus section.
CP Communications, a provider of solutions and services for live event productions, says it provided REMI production and streaming services for the Ohlmeyer Kusserow Group (OKG), a production company that […]
Exclusives
Under the new deal that runs through the 2025 season, at least 16 races will be on ABC or ESPN and all race weekends will include live coverage of practice and qualifying.
Existing ESPN+ subscribers will get official notification starting July 20 with the price hike taking effect on Aug. 23.
Joe Buck, who previously led U.S. Open coverage when it was on Fox Sports from 2015 through 2019, will host the show with Michael Collins of ESPN. Peyton and Eli Manning will be guests at some point during the tournament, and other guests include Couples and Barkley, Troy Aikman, Josh Allen and actor Jon Hamm.
Once a reliable growth engine for Disney, the sports media behemoth has been squeezed by cord-cutting and escalating costs to televise major sports. ESPN+ is the most aggressive step to date by ESPN to recapture the consumers that are dropping its channels along with the rest of their pay TV subscriptions. Here’s what it will include.
ESPN said it would make available hundreds of hours of professional and college sports, its library of programming and even rugby and cricket matches on its new ESPN+ streaming service, which it intends to launch April 12 at a price of $4.99 per month.
