Future of ESPN/+

[LadyStanley]

Disney CEO was on CNBC's Fast Monday Wednesday, November 10.
Check out this Podcast: First On CNBC: Disney CEO Bob Chapek Dives Into the Latest Quarter https://player.fm/1BKqUHU

Fresh off earnings call, addressed the future of sports on Disney platforms.

They seem to be looking to get a near monopoly of sports to be viewed on their streaming service.

Specifically mentioned NFL Red Zone potentially.

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[Poppy Whoa Sonnet]

Makes sense, if you aren't limited by time constraints anymore re: scheduling, might as well have all the sports on your service.

 

[SJSharksfan39]

Disney CEO was on CNBC's Fast Monday Wednesday, November 10.
Check out this Podcast: First On CNBC: Disney CEO Bob Chapek Dives Into the Latest Quarter https://player.fm/1BKqUHU

Fresh off earnings call, addressed the future of sports on Disney platforms.

They seem to be looking to get a near monopoly of sports to be viewed on their streaming service.

Specifically mentioned NFL Red Zone potentially.

If you want to put all the sports on your streaming service, make the user interface better.

 

[OG6ix]

Disney CEO was on CNBC's Fast Monday Wednesday, November 10.
Check out this Podcast: First On CNBC: Disney CEO Bob Chapek Dives Into the Latest Quarter https://player.fm/1BKqUHU

Fresh off earnings call, addressed the future of sports on Disney platforms.

They seem to be looking to get a near monopoly of sports to be viewed on their streaming service.

Specifically mentioned NFL Red Zone potentially.

Sure but they will have competition from PeaCOCK, Amazon Prime, Netflix (maybe), CBS, Youtube etc. This new world is much different than the Cable world.

 

[awfulwaffle]

If you want to put all the sports on your streaming service, make the user interface better.

What exactly is wrong with the user interface?

Browse -> List of all the sports you can browse(pretty self explanatory)
Schedule and Replays -> List is broken down by either Live, Upcoming, or Replay. Then you can filter by which sport you want to see, as well as if it's espn+, or if you want to watch ESPN etc.

Seems pretty basic and easy to navigate to me no?

 

[LadyStanley]

Sure but they will have competition from PeaCOCK, Amazon Prime, Netflix (maybe), CBS, Youtube etc. This new world is much different than the Cable world.

You mean Paramount streaming service.

 

[OG6ix]

What exactly is wrong with the user interface?

Browse -> List of all the sports you can browse(pretty self explanatory)
Schedule and Replays -> List is broken down by either Live, Upcoming, or Replay. Then you can filter by which sport you want to see, as well as if it's espn+, or if you want to watch ESPN etc.

Seems pretty basic and easy to navigate to me no?

There are a couple things that are wishlist items for me but definitely not a deal breaker with what they have today. I'd prefer my favourite leagues up front on the guide (I have been innedated with College Basketball this week) and some sort of no-spoiler features where they don't display the results via a video clip or score.

 

[Poppy Whoa Sonnet]

What exactly is wrong with the user interface?

Browse -> List of all the sports you can browse(pretty self explanatory)
Schedule and Replays -> List is broken down by either Live, Upcoming, or Replay. Then you can filter by which sport you want to see, as well as if it's espn+, or if you want to watch ESPN etc.

Seems pretty basic and easy to navigate to me no?

ID favorite sports and always show those shelves on top would be nice. I feel like i have to click through a lot of garbage to find hockey games.

 

[SJSharksfan39]

What exactly is wrong with the user interface?

Browse -> List of all the sports you can browse(pretty self explanatory)
Schedule and Replays -> List is broken down by either Live, Upcoming, or Replay. Then you can filter by which sport you want to see, as well as if it's espn+, or if you want to watch ESPN etc.

Seems pretty basic and easy to navigate to me no?

1. Be able to turn scores off
2. Have an easier way to get to specific leagues you want to see, or set an option in settings to filter only the leagues you want to see. This week I have been inundated with College Basketball and I don't want to see that. If I want to go into Multi-cast mode, I should just see all the Hockey games and that's it
3. Be able to start a game while it's still going on, and not be afraid of spoilers
4. No more blackouts of NHL Network games
5. Don't black out games that are out of market and then say that it is the internet providers fault (This happened to me last night with the Ducks game. The reps are useless)
6. Have better navigation capabilities on the computer side of ESPN+
7. Fix the Ipad app because it doesn't work
8. Have more games on demand

I think there are a few more, but this is the gist of my issues with ESPN+ at the moment.

 

[Kalv]

Monopoly wouldn't be good. But yeah, somehow it feels there will be competition for these deals

 

[joelef]

There way more properties then there ever was before in this country and many niche spots are trying to find alternatives to mainstream tv ie masl on Facebook live or the Nll a few years ago put games in twitter

 

[joelef]

Many smaller properties have completely. Left ESPN like pba nhra bass masters champions league etc.. Simply ESPN+ couldn’t be a monopoly even if they wanted to.

 

[PhillyWings]

ESPN was in 76 million households at the end of Disney's fiscal 2021