Following Venu Sports’ unexpected death last week, DirecTV is offering MySports, a comparable streaming service that costs $70 a month.
Disney (which owns ABC and ESPN), Fox (Fox and Fox Sports 1), NBC Universal (NBC and USA Network), and Warner Bros. Discovery (TBS, TNT, and TruTV) would all have “40 leading sports and broadcast channels” available on the new service. Since NBC Universal wasn’t anticipated to be a part of Venu Sports’ portfolio, its inclusion is noteworthy.
Beginning with the 2025–2026 basketball season, NBC will serve as one of the NBA’s new homes in addition to broadcasting college athletics and Sunday Night Football. Although DirecTV informs CNET that it is “in discussions” with the channel, CBS is not currently part of the bundle. Those who want to watch regional sports networks will have to upgrade to one of DirecTV’s more expensive plans because MySports does not provide them either.
Along with a few college sports-focused channels like the ACC Network, Big Ten Network, and SEC Network, the package will include channels from the major leagues themselves, including the NFL Network, NBA TV, MLB Network, and NHL Network.
According to DirecTV, “additional networks, local stations, and ESPN Plus” will be added to MySports “at no extra cost in the near future.” Similar to DirectTV Stream, MySports is a streaming service that can be accessed without a satellite.
According to the corporation, satellite customers will eventually be able to access the service. The DirecTV app, which is accessible on several platforms such as iOS, Android, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Google TV, and Roku, allows you to access the service. A “risk-free” five-day trial and a $20 monthly discount for the first three months (which would reduce the monthly charge to $50 for those months) are being offered by the company as part of a launch campaign.
Continuing, MySports does not have any contracts, and users are free to stop or resume their subscription whenever they like. The new package will be introduced by DirecTV in 24 “major metro regions,” with all three broadcast networks first available in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area. While DirecTV plans to expand its services to include local channels as it negotiates agreements with the relevant local affiliates, customers in the other 19 markets will have access to select local stations. As it forms agreements with more local stations, the firm says it intends to enter new markets.
MySports will offer channels that aren’t often connected to sports in addition to the big networks’ sports-focused channels. News outlets such as CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News are included in this. Additionally, 4K and limitless cloud DVR are supported, BrandSpur entertainment and lifestyle news reports.
When Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. unveiled the sports streaming service Venu Sports last year, it caused a stir. To reduce the cost of a larger TV bundle from cable, satellite, or streaming services like YouTube TV, Hulu Plus Live TV, Fubo, Sling TV, or DirecTV, the service was created to combine the cable channels from all three providers (including ESPN, ABC, Fox, TNT, and TBS) into a smaller package. The service would have cost $43 a month for the first 12 months, which is significantly less than what services like cable and even YouTube TV, which currently costs $83 a month, charge.
Since it doesn’t presently have CBS, the original MySports version resembles Sling TV’s Orange and Blue package, which typically costs about $66 a month in places with local ABC, Fox, and NBC feeds in addition to ESPN, TNT, and TBS. The three media businesses declared last week that they would no longer be pursuing the launch of Venu Sports after Fubo’s litigation caused the service’s launch to be delayed.
Following the statement by Disney and Fubo available to BrandSpur digital news platform that all litigation had been resolved and that Fubo would combine into Disney’s Hulu Plus Live service, that announcement was made. The new DirecTV MySports plan, which costs $70 a month (after the first discount), would be a good substitute because it includes several non-sports-related channels, including USA Network, TNT, TBS, and the main news channels.
Fubo will be able to introduce its sports-focused streaming packages with Disney’s channels in the future as part of the Disney agreement.
