The Walt Disney Company says it will soon integrate live sports and documentaries from ESPN Plus into its flagship streaming service Disney Plus.
Subscribers of the Disney Bundle Trio will be able to watch content from ESPN Plus via a dedicated tile within Disney Plus, starting December 4, the company announced this week. The Disney Bundle Trio includes access to Disney Plus, ESPN Plus and Hulu, starting at $17 per month for a version that includes ads within Disney Plus and Hulu, or $27 per month for commercial-free streaming.
The move is similar to Disney’s integration of Hulu content within Disney Plus, which started last year through a public beta before becoming a permanent fixture earlier this year. Disney executives said the move was intended to make it more-convenient for subscribers of the Disney Plus bundle to watch all the content available in their plan from a single app.
Both Hulu and ESPN Plus will remain separate apps with their own individual subscription plans, which allows streamers to pick and choose which Disney services they want to buy, without having to purchase the others. A subscription to Hulu starts at $10 per month, while ESPN Plus costs $12 per month.
On Thursday, Disney said it was still on track to relaunch the ESPN app with access to ESPN’s multiplex cable network by Fall 2025. The service, which has yet to be named or priced, will include access to ESPN Plus, as well as streaming versions of ESPN’s cable channels like ESPN, ESPN 2 and ESPNews.
The announcement of the ESPN Plus content tile and the forthcoming launch of the ESPN streaming service fell on the same day that Disney reported its fiscal fourth quarter (Q4) earnings, which showed the company earned $321 million in profit off $6.3 billion in streaming revenue from Disney Plus, ESPN Plus and Hulu.
The number of people paying for Disney Plus around the world grew to 122.7 million during Q4, while the number of customers paying for Hulu and Hulu with Live TV increased to 52 million. The number of ESPN Plus subscribers was not disclosed.
