Starting Thursday, streaming live sports from ESPN has never been easier.
On Thursday, Disney launched a first of its kind standalone app that will carry all ESPN sports programming.
Yes, that means you’ll be able to stream ESPN, ESPN2, SEC Network, ABC, ESPN+ and more on a single app. Primary ESPN channels will no longer be exclusively tied to cable subscriptions.
Per Yahoo Sports , the new ESPN app will stream more than 47,000 live events each year.
“We’re approaching our 46th year here, and I would say that this is one of the biggest days at ESPN, if not the biggest,” ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro told CNBC . “This is something that fans have been wanting, they’ve been asking for many years. And our mission is to serve the sports fan — anytime, anywhere — and we’re going to deliver.