Tag: ESPN
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ESPN’s New Streaming Service ESPN+ Will launch April 12th
Today ESPN announced that their new streamings service will launch April 12th and cost just $4.99 a month. “With ESPN+, fans have access to thousands more live games, world class original programs and on-demand sports content, all at a great price,” said Jimmy Pitaro, ESPN’s president, in a statement. ” They will get all of that as a part of a completely re-imagined, increasingly personalized ESPN App that provides…
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ESPN+ Will Be The Exclusive Home of ESPN’s “30 for 30” On-Demand Streaming
This week ESPN’s new president Jimmy Pitaro sat down with Variety to talk about ESPN. During the interview, we got some new details about ESPN’s new streaming service EPSN+. One of the newest revelations is that ESPN+ will be the exclusive home of on-demand access to ESPN’s “30 for 30.” Now you will still be…
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ESPN’s New Streaming Service Will Let You Subscribe to Out-of-Market Games
This week Disney’s CEO Bob Iger opened up at the Media & Telecom Conference about Disney’s plans for streaming and their new ESPN Plus streaming service. During the talk we learned a lot about Disney’s plans for the future of streaming. Some we already knew like more original shows and movies to attract subscribers to…
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ESPN+ Strikes a Deal with MLS For Exclusive Streaming Rights
Yesterday we learned Major League Soccer is shutting down their MLS live streaming service after striking a deal with ESPN+. Now Major League Soccer games will be streaming on ESPN’s new subscription streaming service ESPN+. ESPN+ is said to launch in spring 2018 after the start of MLS season on March 3, 2018. Until ESPN+…
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ESPN’s New Streaming Service Will Costs $4.99 a Month
For over a year we have known that Disney was working on a streaming service for ESPN. The service will be caused ESPN+, and now we know the price. “The third feature is a plus service, we’re calling it ESPN Plus, that will include an array of live programming that is not available — live…
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5 Cord Cutting Stories to Keep an Eye on in 2018
We are only a week away from the start of 2018. 2017 was an amazing year for cord cutting, and 2018 looks to be even better. So let’s take a moment and look forward to 5 cord cutting stories to keep an eye on in 2018. #1 ESPN ESPN has long been the leader in…
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ESPN Strikes a Deal to Stream Monday Night Football on Mobile Phones
For years Verizon has had exclusive rights to stream NFL games on mobile phones. Earlier this month Verizon and the NFL struck a new deal that allowed the NFL to sell streaming rights to mobile phones to other devices. NBC recently announced that they have come to an agreement to stream NFL Sunday Night Football…
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ESPN Fires 150 Employees to Cut Costs as Cord Cutting Grows
Earlier in November, it was reported that ESPN planned to lay off more staff. Today we learned that 150 ESPN employees have been laid off. Here is a copy of the memo sent to employees form ESPN President John Skipper: Today we are informing approximately 150 people at ESPN that their jobs are being eliminated.…
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ESPN Launches a SportsCenter Show on Snapchat
Yesterday ESPN announced that they are launching a short-form version of its SportsCenter show on Snapchat. The show will air at 5 AM and 5 PM on weekdays and at 5 AM on weekends, and it will offer highlights of some of the biggest sports events around the world. “SportsCenter on Snapchat provides a creative new…
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New Details on ESPN’s Subscription Streaming Service
For about a year now we have been hearing that Disney plans to launch a standalone ESPN streaming service. During Disney’s third quarter earnings call we got our first details of the new service. Content Disney CEO Bob Iger said that the new app will be able to “stream our channels on an authenticated basis and…