ESPN is coming to Disney+. Now, the sports network wants to make sure Disney+ users come to ESPN.<\/p>\n
Walt Disney\u00a0debuted a dedicated ESPN tile Wednesday on Disney+ for people who subscribe to ESPN+, its sports streaming platform,\u00a0<\/strong>to watch programming without leaving the Disney+ application. Next fall, when ESPN launches its\u00a0yet-to-be-named \u201cflagship\u201d service, those subscribers will get full access to all ESPN content through the ESPN tile on Disney+.<\/p>\n Disney is making about 100 live games available to Disney+ members without a corresponding ESPN subscription. Those events will span college football and basketball, the National Basketball Association and WNBA, the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, tennis, golf, the Little League World Series and UFC, ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro said in an interview.<\/p>\n Next week\u2019s alternate\u00a0\u201cSimpsons\u201d telecast\u00a0of the NFL\u2019s \u201cMonday Night Football\u201d game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys will also be available to Disney+ subscribers, as well as five NBA Christmas games.<\/p>\n \u201cNow when you subscribe to Disney+, you\u2019ll have access to kids and family, general entertainment if you\u2019re a Hulu subscriber, and sports,\u201d said Pitaro. \u201cOur goal is to serve sports fans anytime, anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n ESPN will also include some of its studio programming \u2014 such as \u201cCollege Gameday,\u201d \u201cPardon the Interruption\u201d and certain podcasts that include video \u2014 on Disney+ for non-ESPN subscribers. Some ESPN sports-related films and documentaries will also appear on Disney+ married to whatever sports season is active, Pitaro said.<\/p>\n ESPN\u2019s programming will also be integrated within the Disney+ search, similar to\u00a0Hulu\u2019s integration\u00a0earlier this year. If a Disney+ subscriber who isn\u2019t an ESPN customer clicks on something that requires an ESPN subscription, the user will be prompted to sign up within the app.<\/p>\n ESPN is also creating two studio shows specifically for Disney+, Pitaro said. The first will be a daily \u201cSportsCenter\u201d just for Disney+ subscribers, which will air live on Disney+ at a set time and then remain on the platform for on-demand viewing.<\/p>\n The second is a women\u2019s sports show that may air weekly or several times a week. Both programs are in development and will be made for a more casual sports fan, said Pitaro.<\/p>\n \u201cOur research shows there\u2019s very little overlap between people watching Disney+ and ESPN linear,\u201d said Pitaro.<\/p>\n Disney+ has a strong female audience that Pitaro hopes will tune into the weekly\u2019s women\u2019s show, which he first alluded to\u00a0in an interview with CNBC Sport\u00a0in October.<\/p>\n ESPN+ has about 30,000 live games each year and costs $11.99 per\u00a0<\/strong>month when purchased separately from Disney+. A Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ bundle (with ads) costs $16.99 per month.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n ESPN is coming to Disney+. Now, the sports network wants to make sure Disney+ users come to ESPN. Walt Disney\u00a0debuted a dedicated ESPN tile Wednesday on Disney+ for people who subscribe to ESPN+, its sports streaming platform,\u00a0to watch programming without leaving the Disney+ application. Next fall, when ESPN launches its\u00a0yet-to-be-named \u201cflagship\u201d service, those subscribers will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}