The new sports streaming service from Disney, ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery has a name and a price! The service will be called Venu Sports and will launch this fall.
Pricing for the new service will be $42.99 per month! Yikes! But this will fall into the range experts predicted.
A seven-day free trial will be offered. If customers sign up at the launch price it will be locked in for 12-months. Implying that three companies will jack up the price at some point.
Venu Sports “will offer thousands of live sports events from all the major professional sports leagues and top college conferences. The streaming service will provide access to 14 live sports channels and an expansive library of on-demand content from the collective companies’ portfolios of sports networks and ESPN+.”
Subscribers will have access to the following linear sports networks, “ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SECN, ACCN, ESPNEWS, ABC, FOX, FS1, FS2, BTN, TNT, TBS, truTV, as well as ESPN+”
Disney must be in charge because we have “pillars” being used again and they also use the word “robust.”
Venu Sports will follow three pillars:
- Extensive Live Games and Event Coverage of the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, WNBA, NCAA Division I football and basketball, U.S. and international soccer, combat sports, Grand Slam tennis, championship golf, INDYCAR, NASCAR and F1 auto racing, and more.
- Iconic Sports Studio Shows and Pre/Post Game Programming with ESPN’s SportsCenter, First Take, Get Up!, College GameDay and The Pat McAfee Show, FOX’s NFL Sunday, The Herd with Colin Cowherd, First Things First, and TNT’s Inside the NBA to name a few.
- Robust Library of On-Demand Sports Content with programming that celebrates sports culture and fandom, including ESPN’s 30 for 30 library, ESPN+ Originals, ESPN Films, documentary programming from Fox Sports Films, and more.
The service will offer coverage of these sports,
- Championship Golf PGA Championship and PGA TOUR LIVE.
- College Sports SEC, ACC, the Big East, Big Ten and Big 12, NCAA Football, College Football Playoffs, NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball.
- Combat Sports: MMA fight coverage, events from UFC, Top Rank Boxing, PFL, and Bellator.
- Grand Slam Tennis: Coverage the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open.
- MLB: Over 700 games during the regular season and postseason National League and American League Series coverage, and the World Series.
- Motorsports: Coverage of all NTT INDYCAR SERIES races, NASCAR’s Daytona 500 and Championship Race, and all Formula 1 events.
- NBA: 165 regular season NBA games, postseason coverage with playoff games, conference finals, and the NBA Finals. Shows including Inside the NBA from TNT Sports, along with ESPN’s NBA Today and NBA Countdown.
- NFL: NFL coverage provided by ESPN/ABC and FOX. Regular season, Wild Card and Divisional round playoff games, NFC Championship game, Super Bowl LIX in 2025, and Super Bowl LXI in 2027, ESPN’s Emmy Award-Winning Monday Night Football with Peyton & Eli, along with FOX NFL Kickoff and FOX NFL Sunday.
- NHL: 2024-2025 NHL season with regular season games and all postseason playoff games, All-Star Game, and Stanley Cup Finals, NHL on TNT Face Off and ESPN’s NHL studio show, The Point.
- U.S. and International Soccer: FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Football Championship, FA Cup, CONMEBOL Copa América, and MLS Cup Championship, along with MLS and NWSL regular season and playoff game coverage, in addition to Bundesliga, Eredivisie, and LALIGA coverage.
- WNBA: Regular and post season coverage of the WNBA.
- UFL: Complete coverage of the United Football League.
- Other Coverage: Cycling, the Premiere Lacrosse League, Major League Rugby, three Triple Crown events and more.
Pete Distad, CEO of the new Venu Sports service offered this comment,
“With an impressive portfolio of sports programming, Venu will provide sports fans in the U.S. with a single destination for watching many of the most sought-after games and events. We’re building Venu from the ground up for fans who want seamless access to watch the sports they love, and we will launch at a compelling price point that will appeal to the cord cutter and cord never fans currently not served by existing pay TV packages.”
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Source: PR Newswire
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