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Disney It launches its new ESPN Flagship Striping Applications Thursday, just in time for the football season, bringing customers complete ESPN apartment in one place.
The entertainment company works on launching an application for directly on consumers – which is also named ESPN – for a while. It is designed to expand access to existing cable subscribers and to cheer on sports fans outside the traditional TV package wage access to all ESPN content.
It is the first time that the company offers all its linear TV content to customers through streathing.
“Here we are approaching 46. years, and I would say that this is one of the biggest days on ESPN, if not the biggest,” ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro on Thursday CNBC’s David Faber. “It’s something that fans want to search for many years. And our mission is to serve sports fans – anytime, anywhere – and that we will deliver.”
Pitaro and Director of Disney Bob Iger said the company would be focused on the ESPN ecosystem as a whole, not subscribers especially to a new service.
“As a company, we are now agnostic when it comes to linear television and digital television, digital content, together we manage them together and holistic,” Iger said. “We look at the whole and we’ll do it here.”
Here’s what we know about what the app will look like and how it will work for consumers.
Plan a PlayBook
Anyone who currently pays ESPN through their cable service will have access to the ESPN application for streaming.
For all others, the application will come to various options in registration.
Subscribers can buy an unlimited plan that gives access to all ESPN networks, for $ 29.99 per month or $ 299.99 per year.
ESPN says this plan will cover more than 47,000 live events a year, including NCAA Championship, Australian Open, PGA Championship and more.
Users can also bear the ESPN unlimited plan with Disney + and Hulu for $ 35.99 per month, including ads, or $ 44.99 per month without advertisements.
In launch, Disney will offer the same package at a promotional price of $ 29.99 per month, with ads, in the first year.
There is another package on the road. ESPN and Fox Corp. are join To offer its striking services of immediate consumers as combined offers.
Fox’s Service, aka Fok One, Also debits on Thursday And it includes all fox content, including news and sports. It costs $ 19.99 per month independently.
ESPN and Fox One Package will be available 2. October for $ 39.99 per month. However, customers The payment package on the TV will get access to each of the streaming applications without additional costs.
What is next for ESPN +
Briefly from the ESPN unlimited offer, the company also debits its ESPN Select Tier.
This plan has access to all content available on the existing ESPN + service, including sports streaming, a library of exclusive emission studies and original content and playback of games on request.
ESPN says this plan will cover more than 32,000 live events a year.
It will cost $ 11.99 per month or $ 119.99 per year.
Customers can also buy Disney +, Hulu and ESPN Select Bundle, which includes ads, for $ 16.99 per month, or No-ads option for $ 26.99 per month.
The ESPN + was for the first time for the sports network for the first time in Striming, launched 2018 as a special application that has exclusive content outside the TV network. Although there are some various matches of Simulsts, it is never placed that most of the ESPN content is.
ESPN + had 24 million subscribers as well as the latest Disney earning report.
The existing ESPN + customers automatically become the SELECT plan under the new service, the company said.
Customers with existing streaming bunds will be able to watch the ESPN content on Disney + next to another programming.
“This will continue to develop over time, and in fact, with data that will be available will improve even more because the sport fans can look at them and what they want to see them the most,” Iger told CNBC on CNBC on the street
Increasing content
ESPN streaming service will include all live games, together with programming with ESPN2, Network SEC and ESPN on ABC. In addition, it will have fantastic products, new betting, study programming and documentary films, between other types of content.
The network recently signed two contracts to strengthen its sports offers.
At the beginning of August ESPN said it enters Partnership with WVE For American rights to the greatest events in wrestling, including crispy, royal rubr and summerlam. CNBC has been reported that ESPN will pay for an average of $ 325 million a year five years of law. On Wednesday, espn and WVE said that the agreement begins immediately, earlier than previously announced.
ESPN too brought an agreement This month with the National Football League for the acquisition of the NFL network in exchange for Proact Football League that takes the capital share in the ESPN.
Pitaro said that on Thursday that ESPN has “healthy conversations” with the baseball of the main league to reach a new agreement, but did not give specificity.
– CNBC’s Alex Sherman and Lillian Rizzo contributed to this report.
