SMW: ESPN will launch DtS platform in fall 2025

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https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2024/0 ... year-iger/

The circus continues!

>> For the second-straight day, Disney has announced a new direct-to-subscriber streaming service that will include the ESPN television channels.Disney CEO Bob Iger said on CNBC Wednesday that the company will launch a direct-to-subscriber platform consisting of ESPN’s linear channels in time for the 2025 football season. The long-rumored service will be only the second direct-to-subscriber platform featuring ESPN channels, as it was announced just a day earlier that the networks will be included in a joint streaming venture with Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox that will launch later this year.Iger contrasted the joint venture service, which he termed “really a channel bundle,” with what will be a feature-rich, “much more immersive” ESPN-specific app that includes “integrated betting, fantasy, much more personalization, customization, probably shopping in some form, much deeper in statistics … kind of the sports lovers’ delight.” <<