ESPN as a stand-alone service.

During the fall, I'll subscribe to Sling TV, or another service that carries ESPN, to watch college football. I don't like doing that, but it's how to watch ESPN. Well, I could get cable, but I won't be doing that. I stream, and ESPN is available through a live streaming service such as Sling TV and the like.

If ESPN was available as a stand-alone service, I would rather watch that way. But it's not. Now right now, anyway.

Word is that ESPN will be available as a stand-alone service in 2025 or 2026. That's a paywall link, by the way, but there is a write-up on Cord Cutters News that might be useful.

ESPN reportedly gets, on average $9.42 from each cable TV subscriber. Now it is being reported that Disney may need to charge subscribers to its standalone service $22 a month according to reports for experts.

Moving to streaming will likely mean ESPN will need to charge more as many people who pay for ESPN don’t watch it. $22 could be a price you may expect depending on if ESPN+ is included etc.

My Streaming Life would love to see a standalone ESPN service. I hope it happens sooner than 2025, but whenever it happens, I'm in come football season.