ESPN’s standalone streaming service might just be called ESPN

Disney is getting acceptable to motorboat ESPN’s standalone streaming work – and apparently, it whitethorn conscionable beryllium called “ESPN,” according to a study from CNBC. Sources archer CNBC that ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro chose the sanction “to simplify what’s go a cluttered streaming world, filled with antithetic media products that tin beryllium bundled with different services astatine antithetic terms points.”

The upcoming work is reportedly expected to outgo anyplace from $25 to $30 per month. It volition connection entree to a afloat scope of unrecorded sports and betting features you can’t find wrong the existing ESPN Plus service.

As noted by CNBC, Disney volition besides redesign the ESPN app to go a “gateway” to the streaming service. Disney volition besides let radical who already wage for ESPN done their TV supplier to “authenticate into the caller app.” The institution plans to motorboat the standalone ESPN app this fall, which it aims to make disposable “however the user wants it, wherever the user wants it.”

Disney CEO Bob Iger said during an earnings telephone connected Wednesday that the institution volition officially denote the sanction and pricing of the work adjacent week.