Disney has released a new trailer for the upcoming documentary by Andscape called “Memes & Nightmares”, which is a hilarious and insightful satirical film that dives into the vibrant world of NBA Twitter. Guided by the witty and iconic social-media personality Josiah Johnson (aka King Josiah) and his equally hilarious co-star Jamel Johnson (no relation!), […]

Disney has officially announced that the ESPN hub will soon be coming to Disney+ in Australia and New Zealand in the coming months. The ESPN hub on Disney+ will bring more than 10,000 hours of ESPN’s live sports action to the platform via live ESPN and ESPN2 channels, with fan-favourite studio shows including SportsCenter, The […]

Over the past year, ESPN has become a bigger part of Disney+ following the launch of the ESPN hub on Disney+ in Latin America and the addition of ESPN On Disney+ in the United States and the upcoming launch of ESPN flagship within Disney+ later this year. For the past few years, Disney has been […]

Late last year, following the launch of the ESPN hub on Disney+, it was announced that Disney was creating a brand new daily sports news show called “SC+,” a spin-off of “SportsCenter.” This new show, aimed at the casual audience, will be coming to Disney+ later in 2025. It will air live on Disney+ at […]

Disney has announced that ESPN has reached a multiyear media rights agreement with Major League Rugby (MLR) to bring the highest level of professional rugby in the United States to ESPN platforms. Under the agreement, all regular season and playoff games will stream live on ESPN+, with a select number of matches presented on ESPN2. […]

Disney has announced the creation of a new Product Engineering group and has hired Andre Rohe as EVP, Product Engineering, to bring product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance (QA), and engineering teams from commerce, growth, and identity/login systems together into a unified group for Disney Entertainment and ESPN. This new group will unify many of the […]

Disney has announced that ESPN has exercised its option to extend its base rights agreement with the ACC to continue as the league’s media partner through the 2035-36 academic year. In its 72nd year, and 18 members strong, the ACC stands as one of the most competitive and revered intercollegiate conferences in the nation. ACC […]

Disney has announced details on the upcoming 2025 season of the NWSL, the premier women’s professional soccer league, which will air across many of Disney’s platforms, including ABC, ESPN, ESPN+ and Disney+ ABC will broadcast six games, up from four in 2024, including three playoff matches in November. ESPN will televise 10 matches, ESPN2 will […]

Disney’s ESPN has released some new details on a brand new feature length documentary called “The Buddy Way”, which tells the story of historic life and career of Coach Eugene F. “Buddy” Teevens III. Directed by Rory Karpf, executive produced by Peyton Manning, and produced by Omaha Productions. “The Buddy Way” explores Teevens’ inspiring journey, […]

Disney has announced some of the highlights of what’s coming to ESPN+ in February 2025, which will also be available to bundled subscribers on Disney+ Standalone Disney+ subscribers will have access to a curated selection of live sports events, studio shows, and ESPN Films from ESPN+, including: Live Events: Weekly women’s college basketball games, Day […]

Disney has announced details on the upcoming ESPN’s College GameDay coverage, which will see the 2024-25 women’s college basketball season kick off with a special presentation across ESPN, ESPN+ and Disney+.   The match will take place on Thursday 23rd January 2025 and it marks the first of five on-campus visits for the women’s college basketball […]

Over the past year, ever since Disney announced it was teaming up with Warner Brothers Discovery and FOX to launch a new sports streaming service called “Venu Sports”, the entire traditional linear cable industry has been trying to stop the launch. This resulted in Fubo successfully getting an injunction to stop the launch of Venu […]

Sports content on Disney+ isn’t anything new, as many ESPN documentaries have been available on Disney+, but in the past year, we’ve seen the next evolution of Disney+ slowly take place with the introduction of sports programming via an ESPN hub. It started in Latin America last June, when Star+ was merged into Disney+ across […]