When Disney acquired majority ownership of streaming video technology provider BAMTech, the announcement back in August included plenty of details of what ESPN’s new streaming service would deliver to consumers. ESPN+, as the service was eventually named, would be accessed through a new version of the ESPN app that already includes news, highlights and scores. […]
The upcoming ESPN+ direct-to-consumer streaming service will bring a “Netflix-like aggregation” of sports shows, documentaries and live events when the subscription service launches in early 2018, according to ESPN President John Skipper. Skipper, who closed out Sports Video Group’s two-day summit in New York City with a keynote discussion that spotlighted the ways ESPN is […]
Disney executives revealed that its new sports streaming service would be branded ESPN Plus (ESPN+) and be available in spring 2018 through a revamped app and permit subscriptions to thousands of additional live sporting events. “This one app experience will be a one-of-a-kind product, offering sports fans far more than they can get on any […]
Baseball’s most innovative franchise, the Houston Astros, triumphed over a Los Angeles Dodgers roster assembled by a front office with several Ph.D.’s in what was undoubtedly the most data-driven World Series to date. Their sensibilities were an appropriate capstone to a 2017 Major League Baseball season full of advancements. Here are SportTechie’s starting lineup of […]
Disney will launch an ESPN-branded sports streaming service early next year that will feature roughly 10,000 events from Major League Baseball, hockey, soccer and tennis, as well as college sports. The media giant announced the subscription-based service Tuesday alongside a slew of other updates that stemmed from its quarterly earnings report and a $1.58 billion […]
