ESPN standalone streaming app is coming this fall — and it ain’t cheap

It has been per week since Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed that an ESPN streaming app was on the best way, a undertaking he referred to as the “ESPN Flagship” through the firm’s earnings name. And whereas pricing wasn’t disclosed at the moment, the thriller has apparently been solved.

The Verge reports that the app — merely titled “ESPN” — will price sports activities followers $29.99/month for the app’s “limitless” plan. That specific providing will pack in all of ESPN’s cable channels. Pay on an annual foundation, and you may be charged $299.99 — a $60 financial savings over what you’d spend paying for a month-to-month subscription.

Listed below are all of the channels that will likely be out there within the streaming app:

ESPN
ESPN2
ESPN3
ESPNU
ESPNews
ESPN Deportes
SEC Community +
Longhorn Community
ACC Community Further
ESPN Aim Line
ESPN Bases Loaded
ESPN+ content material

That will imply ESPN Plus — the sports activities community’s present streaming possibility — is not going away. As a substitute, it will function the identical programming as a part of a brand new “choose” plan that begins at $11.99/month.

In case you’re already subscribed to ESPN Plus, you can be mechanically moved to ESPN choose.

Throughout that earlier earnings name, Iger indicated that when you have ESPN along with your cable package deal or as a part of one of many greatest stay TV streaming providers, you may get entry to the ESPN flagship app. However it’s nonetheless unclear how that may work out.

Along with the ESPN app and the ESPN Plus choose tier, Disney is providing various bundles that embody Disney Plus and Hulu.

Here is the checklist of subscription plans that may get you some type of ESPN and their costs:

Particular ESPN limitless bundle launch supply: Disney Plus (advertisements), Hulu (advertisements): for $29.99 per for the primary 12 months.
ESPN limitless: $29.99 monthly or $299.99 yearly
ESPN limitless bundle with Disney Plus (advertisements), and Hulu (advertisements): $35.99 monthly.
ESPN limitless bundle with Disney Plus (no advertisements) and Hulu (no advertisements): $44.99 monthly
ESPN choose (similar as ESPN+ choices): $11.99 monthly or $119.99 yearly
ESPN choose bundle Disney Plus (advertisements) and Hulu (advertisements): $16.99 monthly
ESPN choose bundle Disney Plus (no advertisements) and Hulu (no advertisements): $26.99 monthly

Now that the Venu Sports activities partnership involving Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery has been scuttled, extra shops are releasing their very own sports-focused app. This week, Fox introduced a brand new Fox One app coming within the early fall that mixes all of Fox’s content material, together with sports activities, information and leisure. The large draw for the app will doubtless be the Fox Sports activities choices, together with faculty soccer and the NFL.

Disney has but to announce an precise launch date for the brand new ESPN app. Apparently, the service will launch within the “early fall,” with an official date announcement coming later in the summertime.