ESPN reveals new streaming service – here's what it costs and everything you get

Sports fans rejoice: ESPN is launching its own streaming service.

In an announcement today, the sports media giant said its direct-to-consumer sports-only streaming service is set for rollout this fall. The name is pretty straightforward — ESPN. 

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ESPN does have a streaming service now in ESPN+, but that’s more of an add-on. It includes live sporting events, studio shows, documentaries, and more, but it doesn’t have the biggest events or actual ESPN channels.

ESPN (the new streaming service) will carry every single piece of ESPN (the network) content. You’ll get all programming from ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPNU, and ESPN+, plus live events like Monday Night Football, Sunday Night Baseball, College Football Primetime, and any game that’s airing on ABC (Disney owns ABC) — 47,000 live events a year in total. 

The unlimited package will cost $30 a month or $300 a year (a savings of about $60). 

Like the current ESPN+ bundle, the new service’s bundle combined with Disney+ and Hulu will cost $36 a month for no ads and $50 a month with ads. ESPN+ will still cost $12 a month. ESPN said a special introductory offer will let you get all three services for $30 a month for 12 months.

ESPN said the new service’s app will have unique features that separate it from the traditional TV product, like enhanced betting analysis, fantasy stats and advice, and a personalized “SportsCenter.” Those features will be available on both the mobile app and the smart TV app.

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ESPN was once synonymous with sports and a staple of cable packages. However, as the TV landscape became increasingly fractured thanks to individualized streaming services, and some of those services (like Netflix and Amazon) started streaming live sports, today’s younger generation doesn’t have that same connection. 

There are still plenty of other players in the sports media game, but a centralized ESPN streaming service might bring the name back to its former prominence.