WatchESPN is Finally Coming to DirecTV Customers

WatchESPN — ESPN’s online streaming site — has been providing access to all kinds of sporting events for some time now, but the ability to use the site has always been contingent on which cable/satellite package one subscribed to. Many of the big players like Comcast, AT&T U-Verse, and DISH already have agreements with ESPN/Disney to offer said streaming content. But anyone who had DirecTV as their television provider was left out in the cold. According to a press release from ESPN, those days will soon be over.

Thanks to a new agreement between the provider and Disney, some 39 million DirecTV customers will soon have access to WatchESPN as well as many other Disney streaming services. The deal is set to kick in sometime in early 2015. While this might be too late for this go-round of college bowl season, DirecTV customers will soon have access to a large swath of sports streaming content including NCAA basketball, NBA, the SEC and Longhorn Networks, and original ESPN programming like SportsCenter and Around the Horn on their computers and mobile devices.

It’s a little surprising that it took this long for ESPN to strike a deal with such a large television provider, but better late than never, I suppose. Download those apps, DirecTV customers. Soon you will have the span of nearly every ESPN offering in the palms of your hands. It’s a Festivus miracle!

 





David G. Temple is the Managing Editor of TechGraphs and a contributor to FanGraphs, NotGraphs and The Hardball Times. He hosts the award-eligible podcast Stealing Home. Dayn Perry once called him a "Bible Made of Lasers." Follow him on Twitter @davidgtemple.

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JP
9 years ago

It took a while because ESPN wouldn’t let Directv customers have it without extracting more money. It had to happen when the Disney-Directv programming contract expired/renewed.