ESPN reportedly has been in talking with Roku about its upcoming standalone cyclosis selection being a featured app on the home screen . Phil Nickinson / Digital Trends
While thesuper lark streaming servicethat combines ESPN , Fox , and Warner Bros. Discovery events stay on in a holding radiation diagram for now ( that ’ll switch presently enough ) , a little more news aboutESPN ’s upcoming standalone streaming serviceis start to filter out .
We ’d take all this with some mental rejection considering that the service wo n’t be uncommitted until sometime in 2025 , and a set can change by then . Citing unnamed source in a piece titled“ESPN is open for business,”The Athletic ’s Andrew Marchand writes that the standalone ESPN subscription — which would be a true direct - to - consumer ( DTC ) service and would not take an subsist subscription to line or an online - free-base service likeYouTube TV — is target a monthly Mary Leontyne Price between $ 25 and $ 30 .
ESPN reportedly has been in talks with Roku about its upcoming standalone streaming option being a featured app on the home screen.Phil Nickinson / Digital Trends
That ’s a vainglorious deal because it would theoretically get you the full ESPN experience — every live show and every live sport that ’s available now on streaming and cable — for one - third to 40 % of the price of a live TV streaming Robert William Service . ( That varies a petty reckon on the table service . ) And you would n’t be saddled with dozens of other channels that you might not ever want to watch .
It ’s also not yet fuck if the standalone subscription would includeESPN+ , which is separate from ESPN right and offer up additional on - need show , as well as far more resilient sports than could ever fit out on the linear ESPN attribute .
Also in the piece , Marchand notes that ESPN is in talks with Roku to “ offer the new DTC service as one of its tile when viewers turn on televisions . ” He notes that ESPN also has had ( presumptively ) similar talks with Amazon and Apple , though that could all mean dissimilar thing . Apple TV , for example , does n’t currently allow for third - party preloaded bloatware . ( The Apple TV ESPN app does , however , support reflex login if you supply your existing cablegram or streaming credential . ) Or perhaps it was referring to Apple TV , the app , and how ESPN could have a post in it alongside Apple TV ’s ownMLS Season Passoption , which does n’t compete with ESPN since the latter lost the rightfulness to MLS match in 2023 .
But money talks , so we ’ll just have to see what eventually come to fruition . And in any casing , we still have a long means to go until this standalone subscription selection is useable .
