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It seems NBA is not there in ESPN+, which is a bummer. Wonder if they will unbundle Disney+ or if this will be the only offering.

by yumraj 7y ago

docbrown 7y ago
It also looks to be no mention of streaming Premier League games. Does anyone know if NBC owns those rights to stream stateside? IIRC, NBC Sports is the Premier League hub while Fox Sports tends to host more Bundesliga (German football club) matches.
- jdietrich 7y ago
  NBC have the EPL rights until 2022. https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/chicago-fire/nbc-sports-retains-rights-premier-league-through-2021-22 https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/chicago-fire/nbc-sports-re...
- iends 7y ago
  NBC owns the Premier League rights and they split the games across NBCSN (primary channel), Premier League Gold extra (3 games a weekend, this dumb online service that's just a cash grab), MSNBC (1? game week), and another channel I can't remember (1 game week?). TNT has some of the champions league games, and the rest are on Bleacher Report Live -- some new paid online service. FS1/FS2 has Bundesliga and some MLS games. ESPN has Serie A, some MLS games. They also seem to have FA Cup, the Championship, and the Carabao Cup on ESPN+. This is pretty terrible compared to a few years ago. You could see all PL matches via NBCSN or their extra NBCSN extra channels. Some big games would be on NBC proper. Fox/FS1/FS2 had the champions league. Now things are more splintered and you have to pay extra to see everything. In addition to getting the channels, to watch the Champions League + Premier League you have to buy TWO online only services that are both $9.99/mo or $65 and $80 a year. For this season, the cheapest way to get NBCSN seems to be to use Sling Blue for $25/mo. FuboTV used to be really good, but it looks like they've basically been raising prices each year. Of course, SlingBlue doesn't come with ESPN/ESPN+ but it certainly covers most the PL games and part of the CL games.
  - snaky 7y ago
    > $65 and $80 a year In a country with median hourly wage $18.58
    - iends 7y ago
      I don’t understand your point? I need to have a bunch of extra commercial relationships with companies that I previously didn’t for the same services I previously had. Just to watch maybe 5 more games that I care about.
dragonwriter 7y ago
> Wonder if they will unbundle Disney+ or if this will be the only offering. Other reporting has indicated they plan to offer Disney+ separately as a standalone, and also as an add-on through Amazon Prime and some other services, the same way HBO Now and some other services are offered.
drewg123 7y ago
I was excited about ESPN+ when it launched, since I was hoping to watch Monday night football, and ACC college basketball. However, neither of those seems to be present. Reading reviews, they say things like: "The list of ESPN+ live content reads like a group of castoffs: programming not valuable enough to appear on one of ESPN’s eight cable networks.... There will be no Monday Night Football, and neither of ESPN’s two weekly NBA games will appear on the platform. Plus, no live event that is on one of ESPN’s eight cable networks will be on ESPN+." (from https://www.theringer.com/sports/2018/4/2/17190026/espn-plus-streaming-service-april-12 https://www.theringer.com/sports/2018/4/2/17190026/espn-plus...) Honestly, account sharing seems to be wave of the future. Eg, my buddy keeps his cable, I give him my Netflix and Amazon logins, and I get his HBO and ESPN logins.

It seems NBA is not there in ESPN+, which is a bummer. Wonder if they will unbundle Disney+ or if this will be the only offering.

by yumraj 7y ago

It seems NBA is not there in ESPN+, which is a bummer. Wonder if they will unbundle Disney+ or if this will be the only offering.

docbrown 7y ago

It also looks to be no mention of streaming Premier League games. Does anyone know if NBC owns those rights to stream stateside? IIRC, NBC Sports is the Premier League hub while Fox Sports tends to host more Bundesliga (German football club) matches.

jdietrich 7y ago
NBC have the EPL rights until 2022. https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/chicago-fire/nbc-sports-retains-rights-premier-league-through-2021-22 https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/chicago-fire/nbc-sports-re...
iends 7y ago
NBC owns the Premier League rights and they split the games across NBCSN (primary channel), Premier League Gold extra (3 games a weekend, this dumb online service that's just a cash grab), MSNBC (1? game week), and another channel I can't remember (1 game week?). TNT has some of the champions league games, and the rest are on Bleacher Report Live -- some new paid online service. FS1/FS2 has Bundesliga and some MLS games. ESPN has Serie A, some MLS games. They also seem to have FA Cup, the Championship, and the Carabao Cup on ESPN+. This is pretty terrible compared to a few years ago. You could see all PL matches via NBCSN or their extra NBCSN extra channels. Some big games would be on NBC proper. Fox/FS1/FS2 had the champions league. Now things are more splintered and you have to pay extra to see everything. In addition to getting the channels, to watch the Champions League + Premier League you have to buy TWO online only services that are both $9.99/mo or $65 and $80 a year. For this season, the cheapest way to get NBCSN seems to be to use Sling Blue for $25/mo. FuboTV used to be really good, but it looks like they've basically been raising prices each year. Of course, SlingBlue doesn't come with ESPN/ESPN+ but it certainly covers most the PL games and part of the CL games.
- snaky 7y ago
  > $65 and $80 a year In a country with median hourly wage $18.58
  - iends 7y ago
    I don’t understand your point? I need to have a bunch of extra commercial relationships with companies that I previously didn’t for the same services I previously had. Just to watch maybe 5 more games that I care about.

dragonwriter 7y ago

> Wonder if they will unbundle Disney+ or if this will be the only offering. Other reporting has indicated they plan to offer Disney+ separately as a standalone, and also as an add-on through Amazon Prime and some other services, the same way HBO Now and some other services are offered.

drewg123 7y ago

I was excited about ESPN+ when it launched, since I was hoping to watch Monday night football, and ACC college basketball. However, neither of those seems to be present. Reading reviews, they say things like: "The list of ESPN+ live content reads like a group of castoffs: programming not valuable enough to appear on one of ESPN’s eight cable networks.... There will be no Monday Night Football, and neither of ESPN’s two weekly NBA games will appear on the platform. Plus, no live event that is on one of ESPN’s eight cable networks will be on ESPN+." (from https://www.theringer.com/sports/2018/4/2/17190026/espn-plus-streaming-service-april-12 https://www.theringer.com/sports/2018/4/2/17190026/espn-plus...) Honestly, account sharing seems to be wave of the future. Eg, my buddy keeps his cable, I give him my Netflix and Amazon logins, and I get his HBO and ESPN logins.