Cancel ESPN+ when you’ve got these streaming companies

In case you had been paying additional for ESPN+, you won’t have to anymore.

That’s one key takeaway from the launch of ESPN’s standalone streaming service, which incorporates all of the community’s cable channels together with the service previously often called ESPN+ (and now known as ESPN Choose). As extra TV suppliers begin bundling ESPN’s new streaming service, they’re primarily including ESPN+ at no additional cost.

So, in case your TV package deal contains ESPN Limitless, take a minute to be sure to’re not subscribed individually to ESPN+. You’ll solely be paying extra for a similar actual programming.

ESPN+ vs. ESPN Choose vs. ESPN Limitless

First, a fast refresher on ESPN’s complicated streaming plans:

• ESPN+ was the earlier title for ESPN’s $12-per-month subscription service. It principally covers reside sports activities that don’t air on ESPN’s cable channels, together with out-of-market NHL video games, La Liga and Bundesliga soccer, and Main League Rugby.
• ESPN Choose is the brand new title for the subscription with simply ESPN+ content material, which nonetheless prices $12 per 30 days. (The community says it should proceed to mark this content material with ESPN+ branding.)
• ESPN Limitless is the brand new $30-per-month plan for all of ESPN’s cable programming, together with reside sports activities on ABC, additional channels resembling ESPN2, and the ACC and SEC faculty networks. It additionally contains the complete ESPN+ catalog.

ESPN Limitless is an enormous deal as a result of it means you don’t want an enormous pay TV bundle to entry the community’s cable programming anymore. Even so, a number of pay TV suppliers have began boasting about making the service accessible to their prospects. In follow, this simply means they’re bundling ESPN+ and permitting prospects to stream via the ESPN app.

Which pay TV suppliers embrace ESPN Limitless?

ESPN’s web site maintains a listing of suppliers providing ESPN Limitless. Right here they’re as of September 3, 2025:

• Spectrum TV Choose Signature and Choose Plus (activate right here)
• Fubo base plans and Sports activities plan (activate right here)
• Hulu + Reside TV (log into the ESPN app together with your MyDisney account)
• DirecTV MySports and Signature plans (streaming just for now, activate right here)

Beginning on September 4, Verizon may even supply ESPN Limitless to all prospects who get ESPN as a part of a Fios TV package deal. DirecTV says it should convey ESPN Limitless to satellite tv for pc and U-Verse prospects later this fall.

What if my TV package deal doesn’t embrace ESPN Limitless?

Different suppliers, resembling YouTube TV, Comcast, and Sling TV, haven’t introduced any plans to incorporate ESPN Limitless. However should you don’t care about ESPN+ programming, that’s not an issue.

Similar to earlier than, you may entry ESPN channels by way of your TV supplier’s menu system or log into the ESPN app together with your pay TV account. The one sensible distinction is that you simply gained’t have entry to ESPN+ content material, which prices $12 per 30 days by itself and doesn’t require a full ESPN Limitless subscription.

Simply don’t pay for ESPN+ twice

For TV packages that didn’t already embrace ESPN+, the addition of ESPN Limitless means you’re primarily getting it without spending a dime.

Spectrum, for example, had solely provided ESPN+ with its TV Choose Plus package deal, which prices $130 per 30 days. A spokesman confirmed that Spectrum’s $125-per-month TV Choose Signature plan now contains ESPN Limitless as properly.

DirecTV, Verizon, and Fubo, in the meantime, had not included ESPN+ in any of their customary streaming packages. All three corporations confirmed that ESPN+ content material is a part of their ESPN Limitless choices.

So should you had been paying $12 per 30 days for a standalone ESPN+ subscription, you must be capable to cancel it and get the identical content material via the above TV suppliers. Likewise, should you’re paying for Disney’s “Trio” bundle with Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+, it can save you $6 per 30 days by paring again to the “Duo” bundle as an alternative.

Sometimes auditing your subscriptions is at all times a wise thought, nevertheless it’s particularly vital now as programmers begin re-bundling their programming in new methods. In any other case, you would possibly find yourself paying for duplicates.

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