Earlier this year, Disney made a major announcement for a brand new untitled sports streaming service, where ESPN would be teaming up with FOX and Warner Brothers Discovery to offer a bundle of the companies’ portfolios of sports networks and sports services – including content from all the major professional sports leagues and college sports. […]
Disney is looking to expand its sports content for Europe as it has secured the rights to UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League football for Disney+ in Sweden and Denmark. This new deal will cover two seasons, 2024/25 and 2026/27 and will include 342 matches and 72 clubs competing across group stages and knock-out […]
Disney’s ESPN Films has announced a brand new “30 For 30” documentary film that will be about the extraordinary life of Stuart Scott, who is a trailblazing broadcaster who shattered preconceived notions of how on-air figures were expected to look, talk, act, and think–and in the process, helped bring hip-hop and Black culture into the […]
Disney has announced that ESPN has reached a long-term, multi-platform media rights extension with Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions, extending the existing, unprecedented partnership into 2034. The deal will see the continuation of the Emmy award-winning “Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli” and additional Omaha original content such as “Peyton’s Places” and “Eli’s Places”. ESPN’s […]
During today’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders, Disney CEO Bob Iger reconfirmed that the brand new direct-to-consumer version of ESPN, which will include all of ESPN’s content, will be available through Disney+ in the United States when it launches in 2024 for Disney streaming bundle subscribers. Bob Iger reconfirmed that this new streaming service will be […]
ESPN has announced details on a new documentary called “Blood Brothers”, which tells the story of Cameron and Cayden Boozer, twin sons of Duke legend Carlos Boozer, who are two of the most highly touted high school basketball recruits in the country. But their most crucial assist came long before either set foot on a […]
Disney has announced details on a new documentary from ESPN Films called “26.2 to Life”, which tells the story of incarcerated men at San Quentin Prison who are members of the 1000 Mile Club, the prison’s long-distance running club, who train all year for the prison’s 26.2-mile marathon. The San Quentin Prison Marathon has an […]
Disney has announced that its sports division, ESPN, has signed a new deal with the College Football Playoff (CFP) that ensures ESPN will continue as the exclusive, worldwide rights holder to college football’s premier postseason event through the 2031-32 season. The exclusive home of the CFP since its inception in 2015, ESPN will expand its […]
Disney’s ESPN has announced details on a brand new documentary series called, “Full Court Press”, which chronicles the ongoing journeys of senior Iowa guard Caitlin Clark, senior South Carolina center Kamilla Cardoso and sophomore UCLA guard Kiki Rice. From Iowa’s historic preseason game that broke attendance records all the way through the WNBA draft in […]
Disney’s ESPN has announced details on a new episode of E60, which documents the amazing and what had been considered an impossible return to basketball of University of Southern California women’s player Aaliyah Gayles, who was shot multiple times and spent more than a year rehabilitating after bullets burrowed through her arms and legs and […]
Last month, Disney’s ESPN announced it would be launching a brand-new sports streaming service with FOX and Warner Bros. Discovery. the new platform is scheduled to launch in the fall of 2024 and will be made available directly to consumers via a new app. Subscribers would also have the ability to bundle the product, including […]
Disney’s ESPN has announced details on a brand-new original series called “Tryouts”, which delves into the heart of America’s most intense and high-stakes tryouts, competitions, and auditions, offering viewers a front row seat into the make-or-break moments of real-life hopefuls who are putting everything at stake to secure a coveted spot with the team, group, […]
Last year, Disney reached an agreement with Charter Communications to end a carriage dispute, where it was agreed that Spectrum customers would get access to the ad-supported version of Disney+ included in their package and that those subscribers on the Select Plus bundle would get access to ESPN+. Earlier this year, Disney+ became available to […]
Earlier this month, Disney announced it was going to be creating a brand new sports streaming service with Warner Brothers Discovery and Fox, which would bring together the companies’ portfolios of sports networks, certain direct-to-consumer (DTC) sports services – including content from all the major professional sports leagues and college sports, into a new app, […]
Earlier this month, Disney’s ESPN, Warner Brothers Discovery and Fox made a surprise announcement that they would be working together on a brand new streaming sports service in the United States that will bring together the three companies’ portfolios of sports networks, certain direct-to-consumer sports services – including content from all the major professional sports […]