ESPN+ to offer Bundesliga whiparound feed ‘Goals Arena’
"Goals Arena" will be available to U.S. viewers on ESPN+, beginning with five matches on Aug. 19.
"Goals Arena" will be available to U.S. viewers on ESPN+, beginning with five matches on Aug. 19.
"We believe that a sports-only streaming app is a tough model and that sports integrated in a general entertainment service a la Peacock or Paramount Plus makes more sense."
"Sorry about that, folks"
This is am ambitious project from Disney.
Who's ready for some live baseball?
Eight of 22 APP Tour events will stream live on ESPN+, with eight one-hour recap shows also airing on ESPN2.
ESPN is taking criticism both for remote broadcasts and for the prominence ESPN+ is playing in their coverage.
"Spinning [off] ESPN/ABC is the best path forward, and we see it as a reasonably probable late-’23 event."
The NHL's out of market package is getting new branding on ESPN+.
"It wasn’t really until that day that I was told I’d have to run a 40, do a 5-10-5, do a broad jump, triple broad jump. My No. 1 concern of that was don’t pull a hamstring."
This is a tough sell, to be honest, even if there's an obvious motivation.
"ESPN+ is the centerpiece. It is the jewel. ...That exclusivity really helps drive audience. As we move forward we are going to keep acquiring more rights for ESPN+."
"The series brings in guests from different backgrounds for fascinating conversations around the themes of hatred, chance, failure, perfection and others."
After a bunch of recent rights acquisitions involving ESPN+, parent corporation Disney is now raising the price for that service.
This furthers the approach we've seen lately from ESPN of adding more linear ESPN content to ESPN+.
Disney has had interest in the NFL out-of-market package for ESPN+ since 2019
"When the league is ready, we're interested in having that conversation with them."
The four-episode series will be available in full on ESPN+ following the first episode's premiere on linear ESPN Saturday.
Before the officials' final ruling, ESPN+ went to a technical difficulties screen.
ESPN+ was a bright spot for Disney this time around.
Breaking news and reports will still be available on the regular ESPN website.
The media networks division, which includes ESPN and ABC, saw a boost in operating income, but a lot of that was about programming costs for the NBA in particular not being applied to Q3. Overall, the media networks saw slight revenue declines, but they seem to have less issues than other Disney divisions.
Rita Ferro and Justin Connolly previously reported to Mayer; they'll now report to Pitaro and Peter Rice.