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The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s first live event on ESPN+ saw a record-breaking 568,000 new subscribers sign up to the sports subscription streaming service on Friday and Sa... More

ESPN has announced the newest additions for its MegaCast of the College Football Playoff National Championship game between Alabama and Clemson. Subscribers will be offered 17 diff... More

Last year, The Walt Disney Company purchased a majority stake in live streaming specialist BAMTech, signalling a major strategic shift at the House of Mouse. Just over a year later... More

Russell Wolff, a 20-year veteran of ESPN, is taking over the reins of the sports programmer’s ESPN+ streaming service. In the new role Wolff will be responsible for managing ESPN... More

ESPN Player mobile apps on iOS and Android will enable viewers to watch games on the go and stream content to a big screen via Google Chromecast and to Apple TV devices via AirPlay... More

After years of friction over the direction of its direct-to-consumer strategy, Disney has just claimed major bragging rights with ESPN’s announcement that streaming service ESPN+... More

ESPN Insider is going away after 20 years: The Disney-owned sports media giant is switching Insider subscribers over to ESPN+, its recently launched premium streaming service. ESPN... More

Since launching in April, ESPN’s direct-to-consumer streaming service ESPN+ has had very limited advertising. Live games from Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, s... More

ESPN+, the over-the-top (OTT) video streaming subscription service available in the US, provided by sports broadcaster ESPN, has signed a multi-year deal to become the exclusive ri... More

ESPN+ has reached a multi-year media agreement for three more top-division international football leagues – Australia’s Hyundai A-League and Westfield W-League, the Chinese Sup... More

ESPN is hoping its latest original, “Enhanced,” will be enough to convert dedicated sports fans to subscribers of its OTT platform ESPN+. The new series, which will premiere ex... More

ESPN is doubling down on UFC, the mixed martial arts league the Disney-owned sports behemoth secured its first TV rights deal in April. Sources familiar with negotiations say ESPN ... More

ESPN and its subscription-based broadband service, ESPN+, will offer mixed-martial arts fans a new array of UFC matches and special programming under a new rights deal unveiled Tue... More

ESPN is stuffing its ESPN+ subscription service with thousands of live sporting events and other programming — which won’t be available on its cable TV channels. And it’s als... More

Disney Direct-to-Consumer and ESPN said they will launched the new ESPN+ streaming service on April 12. ESPN+ will be integrated into a new ESPN App and cost $4.99 a month. It w... More

Here’s your chance to mix it up with Stephen A. Smith head-to-head. ESPN next week is launching a viewer-participation version of “First Take” produced exclusively for Fac... More

The network is “remaking the cost base” and developing “new streams of revenue” to replace lost dollars, said Steve Swartz, CEO of Hearst, the publishing giant that owns 20... More

ESPN said it reached an agreement with the National Football League that will allow it to stream Monday Night Football to mobile phones. The agreement follows a new deal between... More

The Walt Disney Company’s acquisition Thursday (Dec. 14) of 22 regional sports networks as part of its whopping $52.4 billion all stock purchase of key 21st Century Fox programmi... More

ESPN Fantasy sports app is driving a massive chunk of the network's digital traffic, and Disney executives are looking to replicate that success for other networks. As ESPN inve... More