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ESPN & ESPN2 Ceding To ESPN+
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MichaelNadal
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So perfect for me, I don't have ESPN but I pay for ESPN+ already as part of my Disney Plus/Hulu bundle.
Exactly plus instead of having to watch whatever match they want to show, you can pick. I love it.
Exactly
plus instead of having to watch whatever match they want to show, you can pick. I love it.
Cupcake
Hall of Fame
Poor baby. It's still only round 1.
Autodidactic player
Professional
My streaming package, Youtube TV and ESPN+, gives me at least a dozen matches to choose from and I never have to listen to the "famous" announcers.
World feed commentators are far better
$9.99 for a single month. Sign up and immediately cancel. I do this twice a year.
Heh, heh - for those of us in the U.S. who follow many other sports (like college football, ice hockey, etc.), ESPN+ has become a way for ESPN to regularly bilk you twice for something you used to pay for once. If you have ESPN/ESPN2, you have to buy ESPN+ separately. If you have ESPN+, you have to subscribe to cable to get ESPN/ESPN2 separately. It pisses me off to no end.
Quick summary of what service you need to see matches:
*All Ashe Stadium matches, most Armstrong Stadium matches, some Grandstand matches: ESPN/ESPN2 (also ESPN3) - cable subscription required
*Some Grandstand matches (and possibly a small number of Armstrong matches), all matches on Court 17 and other outer courts: ESPN+ - separate streaming subscription required
Even though there are many events on ESPN+ I have interest in watching and I can easily afford it, as a point of principle I refuse to subscribe to it. It is my personal protest against having to pay twice for something in most of the 2010s I received by paying once.
Quick summary of what service you need to see matches:
*All Ashe Stadium matches, most Armstrong Stadium matches, some Grandstand matches: ESPN/ESPN2 (also ESPN3) - cable subscription required
*Some Grandstand matches (and possibly a small number of Armstrong matches), all matches on Court 17 and other outer courts: ESPN+ - separate streaming subscription required
Even though there are many events on ESPN+ I have interest in watching and I can easily afford it, as a point of principle I refuse to subscribe to it. It is my personal protest against having to pay twice for something in most of the 2010s I received by paying once.
Federer and Del Potro
Bionic Poster
Not to mention all the other sports matriculating over to these platforms to double dip the chip with charging you out the wazoo.
The NFL playoffs are NOT televised on ESPN+, at least in the U.S. (Actually, ESPN as a network, whether it be ESPN/ESPN2 or ESPN+, only televises one playoff game per season.)
Will they show the final on espn3?
I thought they are available only on espn3 which you can get on espn+ using your ISP in my case Xfinity
tennis4me
Hall of Fame
I didn’t re-check, but I think you’re right. I do have ESPN3 via my ISP.
They should, yes. I believe anything that is televised on ESPN/ESPN2 is also available on ESPN3.
tennis4me
Hall of Fame
This ESPN Press article seems to indicate that the two Finals will be on ESPN and not on ESPN3. But there's a line item on the schedule that shows ESPN3 on Sunday (the day of the men's Final), though with different start time (4 hours earlier).
ESPN’s Exclusive Coverage of the US Open August 29 – September 11
ESPN’s exclusive coverage of the US Open begins Monday, Aug. 29, launching two weeks of marathon telecasts with all matches from all courts available on the ESPN App. ESPN+ will again offer hundreds of exclusive matches across all draws. The number of hours on linear TV has increased to more...
espnpressroom.com
McLovin
Legend
While I agree w/ you on principle, the Disney+ bundle (Disney +, Hulu, ESPN+) is worth it because I'm going to watch the Marvel & Star Wars shows, and some Hulu shows, and my daughters and wife will watch some Hulu shows, and paying for Disney and Hulu separately is the same as getting the bundle, which gets me ESPN+.
And my mother watches a bunch of ESPN as well (shhhhhh! don't tell anyone that I'm sharing my '+' account w/ family members...)
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