DirecTV has stitched collectively a thin bundle of sports activities channels, focused at individuals who wish to watch stay sports activities with out paying for a broad TV bundle.
Launching Tuesday, DirecTV MySports initially contains 40 sports activities and broadcast channels and is offered in 24 metro areas, together with New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Space. The MySports bundle will usually be priced at $69.99 per 30 days. Prospects who enroll on-line for the bundle earlier than Feb. 28, 2025, are eligible to obtain MySports for $49.99 per 30 days for the primary three months. The corporate is also providing a free five-day trial of DirecTV MySports.
MySports is priced nicely below DirecTV’s Leisure and Sports activities Pack entry-level streaming bundle, which is usually $101.98/month. The service launches simply days after Disney, Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery introduced they had been scrapping Venu Sports activities, the businesses’ three way partnership that had been planning to supply a sports-centric streaming bundle for $42.99 per 30 days.
DirecTV secured distribution rights for the MySports channels by way of agreements with media firms together with Disney, Fox Corp., Warner Bros. Discovery and NBCUniversal. The bundle additionally contains networks from every of the foremost U.S. sports activities leagues — NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB — and main collegiate conferences. At the moment, the bundle doesn’t embody Paramount International’s CBS; DirecTV is in talks so as to add the broadcaster to the combination.
DirecTV mentioned the launch of MySports will probably be adopted by extra style choices in 2025 with packages geared round youngsters and household programming and leisure networks. DirecTV had referenced plans to roll out genre-based tiers when it inked a brand new take care of Disney final September.
“The introduction of MySports from DirecTV delivers shoppers higher alternative, flexibility and management to pick out the kind of content material they wish to watch on the proper worth,” DirecTV CEO Invoice Morrow mentioned. “That is the primary of a number of genre-based choices we plan to launch over the approaching months on our path in direction of a brighter TV future for shoppers.”
Nationwide sports activities channels out there at launch by way of DirecTV MySports embody: ACC Community, Huge Ten Community, DirecTV 4K Stay, DirecTV 4K Stay 2, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPNU, Fox Sports activities 1, Fox Sports activities 2, Golf Channel, MLB Community, NBA TV, NFL Community, NHL Community, SEC Community, TBS, TNT, TruTV and USA Community. Broadcast channels will initially embody any native stations owned and operated by ABC, Fox and NBC. Extra networks, native stations and ESPN+ will probably be included in MySports at “no additional value within the close to future,” in accordance with DirecTV.
DirecTV has extra particulars about MySports at this hyperlink, together with preliminary launch markets.
These in 24 main metro areas, like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Space (Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose), could have entry to native ABC, Fox and NBC stations beginning this week. Prospects in metro areas together with Houston, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Austin, Detroit, Gainesville, Fla., Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Orlando, Phoenix, Seattle, Tampa, Miami, Boston, New Haven, Conn., and San Diego will obtain no less than a few of their native ABC, NBC or Fox stations (in cities the place the community owns the native station outlet). These in different markets will get their native stations as associates choose in.
Customers can stream MySports by way of the DirecTV cellular app and by way of platforms together with Roku, Amazon Hearth TV and Apple TV. The service can even embody game-time notifications and a vast cloud-based DVR.
As well as, as with all DirecTV packages, MySports prospects can even have entry to the MyFree DirecTV ad-supported sports activities channels, which incorporates ACC Digital Community, Huge 12, Combat Community, Gasoline TV, Origin Sports activities, Pickleball TV, Gamers TV, Sports activities Grid, Stadium Stream, Surfer TV, Swerve Fight, T2, The Jim Rome Present, TNA, Torque by Historical past, Waypoint TV and Ladies’s Sports activities Community.