DirecTV has stitched collectively a thin bundle of sports activities channels, focused at individuals who need to watch stay sports activities with out paying for a broad TV bundle.

Launching Tuesday, DirecTV MySports initially contains 40 sports activities and broadcast channels and is on the market in 24 metro areas, together with New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Space. The MySports bundle will usually be priced at $69.99 per thirty days. Prospects who join on-line for the bundle earlier than Feb. 28, 2025, are eligible to obtain MySports for $49.99 per thirty days for the primary three months. The corporate is also providing a free five-day trial of DirecTV MySports.

MySports is priced effectively beneath DirecTV’s Leisure and Sports activities Pack entry-level streaming bundle, which is frequently $101.98/month. The service launches simply days after Disney, Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery introduced they have been scrapping Venu Sports activities, the businesses’ three way partnership that had been planning to supply a sports-centric streaming bundle for $42.99 per thirty days.

DirecTV secured distribution rights for the MySports channels by means of agreements with media firms together with Disney, Fox Corp., Warner Bros. Discovery and NBCUniversal. The bundle additionally contains networks from every of the foremost U.S. sports activities leagues — NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB — and main collegiate conferences. At the moment, the bundle doesn’t embody Paramount International’s CBS; DirecTV is in talks so as to add the broadcaster to the combination.

DirecTV mentioned the launch of MySports will likely be adopted by further style choices in 2025 with packages geared round children and household programming and leisure networks. DirecTV had referenced plans to roll out genre-based tiers when it inked a brand new take care of Disney final September.

“The introduction of MySports from DirecTV delivers shoppers larger selection, flexibility and management to pick the kind of content material they need to watch on the proper worth,” DirecTV CEO Invoice Morrow mentioned. “That is the primary of a number of genre-based choices we plan to launch over the approaching months on our path in direction of a brighter TV future for shoppers.”

Nationwide sports activities channels obtainable at launch by means of DirecTV MySports embody: ACC Community, Huge Ten Community, DirecTV 4K Reside, DirecTV 4K Reside 2, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPNU, Fox Sports activities 1, Fox Sports activities 2, Golf Channel, MLB Community, NBA TV, NFL Community, NHL Community, SEC Community, TBS, TNT, TruTV and USA Community. Broadcast channels will initially embody any native stations owned and operated by ABC, Fox and NBC. Extra networks, native stations and ESPN+ will likely be included in MySports at “no further value within the close to future,” in keeping with DirecTV.

DirecTV has extra particulars about MySports at this hyperlink, together with preliminary launch markets.

These in 24 main metro areas, like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Space (Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose), could have entry to native ABC, Fox and NBC stations beginning this week. Prospects in metro areas together with Houston, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Austin, Detroit, Gainesville, Fla., Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Orlando, Phoenix, Seattle, Tampa, Miami, Boston, New Haven, Conn., and San Diego will obtain a minimum of a few of their native ABC, NBC or Fox stations (in cities the place the community owns the native station outlet). These in different markets will get their native stations as associates decide in.

Customers can stream MySports by means of the DirecTV cell app and through platforms together with Roku, Amazon Hearth TV and Apple TV. The service can even embody game-time notifications and an infinite cloud-based DVR.

As well as, as with all DirecTV packages, MySports clients can even have entry to the MyFree DirecTV ad-supported sports activities channels, which incorporates ACC Digital Community, Huge 12, Struggle Community, Gas TV, Origin Sports activities, Pickleball TV, Gamers TV, Sports activities Grid, Stadium Stream, Surfer TV, Swerve Fight, T2, The Jim Rome Present, TNA, Torque by Historical past, Waypoint TV and Girls’s Sports activities Community.