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Disney's new ESPN app 'a sports fan's dream'
The Straits Times
|August 22, 2025
Walt Disney's ESPN delivered its full range of sports programming outside of pay TV for the first time on Aug 21, when it debuted an app designed to be a hub for live games and personalized news, stats and highlights.
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LOS ANGELES - Walt Disney's ESPN delivered its full range of sports programming outside of pay TV for the first time on Aug 21, when it debuted an app designed to be a hub for live games and personalized news, stats and highlights.
The ESPN app is Disney's effort to capture some of the tens of millions of customers that the sports channel has lost since 2010 during the streaming TV revolution.
ESPN executives said they have tailored the new offering, which is far broader than the limited ESPN+ app launched in 2018, to cater to the tastes of today's sports fans.
"We know that fans don't just want to watch," ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro told reporters. "They want an experience. They want to interact."
This story is from the August 22, 2025 edition of The Straits Times.
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