Venu Sports to
Offer Extensive Live Games and Event Coverage of All the Major
Professional Sports Leagues and Top College Conferences, Iconic
Sports Studio Shows and Pre/Post Game Programming, and a Robust
Library of On-Demand Sports Content
LOS
ANGELES, Aug. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Venu Sports, the upcoming standalone streaming
service being built through a joint venture to be established by
ESPN, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, FOX and Warner Bros.
Discovery, will be available at a launch price of $42.99 per month for the service, with a
seven-day free trial. Anyone signing up for Venu's launch price
will be able to receive the service for that same price for
12-months from time of sign-up, with the ability to cancel at any
time. Targeted at sports fans outside the traditional pay TV
bundle, Venu is planning a launch in the U.S. in the fall and will
offer thousands of live sports events from all the major
professional sports leagues and top college conferences. The
streaming service will provide access to 14 live sports channels
and an expansive library of on-demand content from the collective
companies' portfolios of sports networks and ESPN+.
"With an impressive portfolio of sports programming, Venu will
provide sports fans in the U.S. with a single destination for
watching many of the most sought-after games and events," said
Pete Distad, CEO of the upcoming
Venu Sports service. "We're building
Venu from the ground up for fans who want seamless access to watch
the sports they love, and we will launch at a compelling price
point that will appeal to the cord cutter and cord never fans
currently not served by existing pay TV packages."
Subscribers to Venu will have access to linear sports networks,
including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SECN, ACCN, ESPNEWS, ABC, FOX, FS1,
FS2, BTN, TNT, TBS, truTV, as well as ESPN+, with programming
packaged around three key pillars of content in the service:
- Extensive Live Games and Event Coverage of the NFL, MLB,
NHL, NBA, WNBA, NCAA Division I football and basketball, U.S. and
international soccer, combat sports, Grand Slam tennis,
championship golf, INDYCAR, NASCAR and F1 auto racing, and
more.
- Iconic Sports Studio Shows and Pre/Post Game Programming
with ESPN's SportsCenter, First Take, Get Up!,
College GameDay and The Pat McAfee Show, FOX's NFL
Sunday, The Herd with Colin
Cowherd, First Things First, and TNT's Inside
the NBA to name a few.
- Robust Library of On-Demand Sports Content with
programming that celebrates sports culture and fandom, including
ESPN's 30 for 30 library, ESPN+ Originals, ESPN Films, documentary
programming from Fox Sports Films, and more.
Additional details about the key sports properties with live
games and events to be offered by Venu include:
Championship Golf: Year-round coverage of
professional golf with select rounds from the Masters Tournament,
extensive coverage of the PGA Championship and PGA TOUR LIVE, which
brings golf fans more than 4,300 hours of live coverage from 35
tournaments a year.
College Sports: Thousands of games and events across
multiple sports from the biggest college conferences, including
SEC, ACC, the Big East, Big Ten and Big 12, with extensive coverage
of NCAA Football, including the College Football Playoffs, along
with NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball, including March
Madness.
Combat Sports: A robust slate of boxing and MMA fight
coverage throughout the year, including events from UFC, Top Rank
Boxing, PFL, and Bellator.
Grand Slam Tennis: Complete coverage of all four of the
annual Grand Slam tournaments, including the Australian Open,
French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open.
MLB: Comprehensive coverage with over 700 games
throughout the regular season, along with postseason National
League and American League Series coverage, in addition to full
coverage of the World Series.*
Motorsports: Coverage throughout the season of the
biggest auto racing events, including all NTT INDYCAR SERIES races,
NASCAR's Daytona 500 and Championship Race, and all Formula 1
events.
NBA: Extensive coverage of the NBA with 165 regular
season games, plus postseason coverage with playoff games,
conference finals, and the NBA Finals, along with access to the
biggest studio shows, including Inside the NBA from TNT Sports,
along with ESPN's NBA Today and NBA Countdown.*
NFL: Broad NFL coverage provided by ESPN/ABC and FOX,
with over 120 regular season, Wild Card and Divisional round
playoff games, the NFC Championship game,Super Bowl LIX in
February 2025, and Super Bowl LXI in
February 2027.* Venu will also have
ESPN's Emmy Award-Winning Monday Night Football with Peyton
& Eli, along with FOX NFL Kickoff and FOX NFL Sunday.
NHL: Extensive coverage of the NHL 2024-25 season with
over 1,200 regular season games and all postseason playoff games,
All-Star Game, and Stanley Cup Finals, with access to NHL studio
programming, including NHL on TNT Face Off and ESPN's NHL studio
show, The Point.*
U.S. and International Soccer: Home for extensive men's
and women's soccer coverage with some of the biggest leagues and
tournaments worldwide, including the FIFA World Cup, UEFA European
Football Championship, FA Cup, CONMEBOL Copa América, and MLS Cup
Championship, along with MLS and NWSL regular season and playoff
game coverage, in addition to Bundesliga, Eredivisie, and LALIGA
coverage.
WNBA: Regular season coverage of the WNBA and full
postseason coverage with every playoff game.
UFL: Complete coverage of the United Football League,
which just wrapped its inaugural season broadcast across FOX Sports
and ESPN and Disney properties.
Venu will also offer the world's biggest cycling events, every
game of the Premiere Lacrosse League, coverage of Major League
Rugby, all three of horse racing's Triple Crown events, and
more.
Fans can find updates on the latest news and information about
Venu Sports at www.venu.com.
* Blackouts apply and subject to change
ABOUT VENU
SPORTS
Venu Sports is
a forthcoming standalone streaming service being built for sports
fans that will bring together live content from all the major
professional sports leagues and top college conferences, in
addition to on demand content from leading sports networks,
including ESPN, FOX, TNT Sports, and more.
Scheduled to launch in the fall, the future service will be
built through a joint venture being established by ESPN, a
subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, FOX and Warner Bros.
Discovery. Venu Sports will license
each of those companies' existing sports channels, providing sports
fans an extensive, dynamic lineup of sports content that will cater
to sports fans currently outside the pay TV ecosystem. The
formation of the joint venture and launch of Venu Sports is subject to regulatory approvals
and the finalization of definitive agreements amongst the
parties.
Venu Sports will be made
available directly to consumers via a new app. Subscribers would
also have the ability to bundle the product, including with
Disney+, Hulu or Max.
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT CONCERNING FORWARD-LOOKING
STATEMENTS
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within
the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. Words such as "may," "will," "should," "likely,"
"anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "projects,"
"believes," "estimates," "outlook," "planning," "subject to change"
and similar expressions are used to identify these forward-looking
statements. These statements are based on management's current
expectations and beliefs and are subject to uncertainty and changes
in circumstances. Actual results may vary materially from those
expressed or implied by the statements in this press release due to
changes in economic, business, competitive, technological,
strategic and/or regulatory factors and other factors affecting the
operation of Venu Sports' business.
More detailed information about these factors is contained in the
documents the joint venture partners have filed with or furnished
to the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the most
recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports
on Form 10-Q filed by each of The Walt Disney Company, Fox
Corporation and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.
Statements in this press release speak only as of the date they
were made, and Venu Sports
undertakes no duty to update or release any revisions to any
forward-looking statement made in this press release or to report
any events or circumstances after the date of this press release or
to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events or to conform
such statements to actual results or changes in Venu Sports' expectations, except as required by
law.
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