Disney’s five-month-old ESPN+ streaming service has hit 1 million subscribers. (THR)
Reminder: This isn’t “real” ESPN, but a service that lets you see a mixed bag of sports the programmer doesn’t run on its primary networks, like Italian soccer, small college sports and a smattering of pro baseball games. (Recode)
The service costs $4.99 a month, or $49.99 per year. Pandora took eight months to gain 1 million subscribers to its premium service, and Hulu and AT&T’s DirecTV Now each required a year to capture that number of customers. (Variety)
ESPN+ is the first of Disney’s direct-to-consumer offerings planned in the coming months. The general entertainment offering, which will include original movies and series as well as titled pulled off of Netflix, is slated to launch by the end of 2019. (Deadline)