ESPN Streaming Review

An ESPN streaming subscription is $13 per month for the Select plan and $30 per month for the Unlimited plan, or you can choose to order the annual subscription for $130 or $300 per year.

Either way, we definitely recommend the yearly subscription to save around $20 if you're a sports fan because it's inevitable that you'll keep this streaming service all year long.

Can you really put a price on access to lots of sports content? We're talking entertainment for hours and keeping you up-to-date on the latest sports news.

And here's a bonus: if you love Disney+ and Hulu's on-demand content, you can bundle all three streaming services for $20 to $45 per month.

You'd save about $13 total than if you were to get all three individually. Over the course of a year, that's $156 you could put toward a new Travis Kelce jersey.

Other than the monthly subscription fee, ESPN has no contract or fees whatsoever. Woot!

ESPN's streaming service has live game coverage, articles, and clips for not only popular sports but also a bunch of sports that don't get much attention.

ESPN shows live games for 20+ sports, such as tennis, soccer, golf, and MMA. ESPN doesn't air live NFL or NBA games unless you sign in with your TV provider (besides MNF this 2024 season).

Are you a fan of rugby? ESPN has it. Is your cousin on an NBA G League team? ESPN has your back. Does your family love to watch the WNBA? ESPN at your service.

Although there isn't much NFL or NBA game coverage, there is a whole section dedicated to basketball news, fantasy football articles, standings, stats, and scores.

If you're a UFC, MMA, or boxing fan, then you might already have ESPN. To get pay-per-view events, you'll need to be an ESPN subscriber.

Then, you'll have to pay that extra $80 for the actual PPV event. But it's a small price to pay to watch Islam Makhachev or Charles Oliveira.

The 2024 season marks the second season NFL games will be available to stream on ESPN, and those include a bunch of Monday Night Football games.

This new change makes access to NFL games more affordable, but also not. Yes, we can watch Monday NFL games for $13 per month, but even if you have the ESPN channel through your TV service, ESPN streaming is the only place you can catch the week 7 MNF game between the Los Angeles Chargers and Arizona Cardinals.

When you open your ESPN app, the home tab is going to look a little similar to Netflix or Hulu. There are horizontal rows of suggestions such as Live Games, Top Picks, Upcoming, and Films Spotlight.

Under the Films Spotlight category is where you'll find Once Upon a Time in Queens, The Captain, and Yankees-Dodgers: An Uncivil War. For Featured Series, you'll find Peyton's Places, Welcome to Wrexham, and Bananaland.

And you won't have to worry about missing a game or not having a DVR because you can replay any of the matches or games you missed while you were at your kid's basketball game.

ESPN makes it easy to use with all of its tabs at the top of the screen.

Most are self-explanatory, but you can find Featured and Browse. You can sit back and enjoy 30 for 30 documentaries, E:60, or SC Featured under the Originals tab.

And we also like the convenient guide under the Schedule & Replays. You can see which games are live now or upcoming, and you can also filter your guide by which sport you want to watch.

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This streaming service is compatible with almost any device, as long as you're able to download the ESPN app. Fortunately, you only need one app to access ESPN and ESPN.

No need to worry about using too much space on your phone. You can keep all of your shopping apps.

Just open up your ESPN app and tap on the ESPN tab, and voilà! You're in. Now you can watch your HD content on three simultaneous streams.

Here's a list of all devices that can stream ESPN:

• iPhones, iPads, and Apple TV
• Android smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs
• Amazon Fire TV and tablet
• Roku devices
• Xbox and Playstation
• Samsung Smart TVs
• On the web (ESPN.com)

If you want to stream the ESPN channel, you have to sign into your TV provider account on the ESPN app. ESPN is compatible with almost every TV provider, so that won't be a problem.

But that also means you have to actually have a TV provider to watch anything besides the live game coverage—like ESPN talk shows.

So ESPN won't be a cable TV replacement. You'll also need to sign in with your cable TV provider to watch the live NBA and NFL games on the ESPN channels (since ESPN doesn't have rights to their games).

In short, think of ESPN as a bonus to feed your sports addiction.

All right, let's lay it all out again. For $120 per year, you get the following with ESPN:

• Live game coverage for more than 20 sports in HD. Oh yeah.
• On-demand series and documentaries like Man in the Arena: Tom Brady and 30 for 30 movies. There go our Saturday nights.
• Exclusive latest news articles on lots of sports. Analysis—yes, please.

Unless you're a fan of only NFL or NBA, this streaming service is worth it. If you can't get enough sports we understand—because neither can we.