DirecTV is starting MySports, a sports-caccessed streaming package recommending access to inhabit NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL games apass more than 40 channels, including ESPN, Fox Sports, TNT Sports, and USA Netlabor, alengthy with local ABC, Fox, and NBC stations. The service will cost $69.99 per month and is useable to stream from DirecTV’s app on mobile and inincreateigent TV platcreates — no saincreateite TV subscription insistd.
DirecTV bills MySports as a inexpensiveer changenative to competitors appreciate YouTube TV, which commences at $82.99 per month, and Fubo, which costs $79.99 / month and up.
Despite recommending access to dozens of channels, MySports is still laboring to insert local CBS greeted. Vince Torres, DirecTV’s chief labeleting officer, telderly Bloomberg the company is in “timely converseions” with the netlabor about a potential deal. MySports should help mend the fractured sports streaming landscape, which currently scatters inhabit NFL, NBA, and MLB games apass separateent services appreciate Prime Video, Netflix, Peacock, Apple TV Plus, and Paramount Plus.
To commence, a beta version of MySports will only be useable in 24 metro areas, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, and others. The MySports app is helped by disjoinal inincreateigent TV platcreates appreciate Roku, Amazon Fire, and Apple TV, and also recommends unrestricted DVR. DirecTV says it will insert insertitional netlabors, local stations, and ESPN Plus to MySports at a procrastinateedr date for “no extra cost.”
Alengthy with this sports streaming package, DirecTV schedules to start aappreciate streamlined bundles soon. “This is the first of disjoinal genre-based chooseions we schedule to start over the coming months on our path towards a radianter TV future for users.” DirecTV CEO Bill Morrow shelp in the press liberate.