ESPN’s live sports streaming service arrives this month

The motorboat of ESPN’s long-awaited standalone streaming work is conscionable weeks away. Alongside its net results connected Wednesday, Disney revealed that ESPN’s streaming work and its “enhanced” app volition get connected August 21st for $29.99 per month.

ESPN’s caller streaming service, which remains abstracted from ESPN Plus, volition connection entree to the network’s linear channels, including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SECN, ACN, and more. The work volition see 47,000 unrecorded sporting events each year, successful summation to on-demand replays and archetypal programming.

Just up of Disney’s earnings, the NFL announced that it’s acquiring a 10 percent stake successful ESPN. In exchange, ESPN is taking power of the NFL Network and gaining the licence to prime NFL content, including immoderate out-of-market pre-season games during the 2025 and 2026 season, that it volition aerial connected its standalone service.

As portion of the deal, ESPN’s streaming service, on with Disney Plus and Hulu, volition watercourse the NFL draught starting with the 2026 season. ESPN users volition besides beryllium capable to adhd the NFL Plus Premium program to their subscription, which includes entree to NFL RedZone. Additionally, a five-year woody with the WWE volition marque ESPN and its streaming work the location to “exclusive” wrestling events successful the US starting successful 2026, including WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and others. (NBCUniversal’s Peacock antecedently streamed these events.)

The contention betwixt unrecorded sports streaming services is heating up. In summation to ESPN, Comcast and DirecTV launched sports-focused streaming offerings earlier this twelvemonth successful an effort to spot up the fractured landscape. Fox’s sports and quality streaming work besides arrives connected August 21st for a cheaper $19.99 per month.

ESPN’s streaming work volition motorboat alongside an updated app, featuring much personalization, an improved multiview feature, betting information, crippled statistics, phantasy sports, and more.

The flagship $29.99 per period ESPN “unlimited” program volition beryllium alongside ESPN Plus, which volition inactive outgo $11.99 per period and location a much constricted enactment of unrecorded sports. ESPN volition besides beryllium disposable with a fig of program options that see bundles with Disney Plus and Hulu. People who already person a wage TV subscription that includes ESPN volition beryllium capable to entree the streaming work for free.