If you like sports, you are surely a fan of ESPN, a medium that meets all your expectations, but if you are in Latin America and you subscribed to this group of sports channels through Star+, you will definitely have some problems being able to watch it as you did before. . For what is this? It turns out that after the integration of this service with Disney+ Premium from June 26, 2024, the content of said platform that hosted Fox, FX, Discovery and obviously ESPN moved to streaming owned by The Walt Disney Company. So what do you need to do to be able to watch ESPN live in its new home? The steps to activate it in the following paragraphs.
It should be noted that ESPN offers all of the sporting events and television programs broadcast by ESPN Latin America’s linear channels, depending on the availability of your country, in addition to presenting some events that are exclusive to the platform.
ESPN logo on a microphone (Photo: Jamie Schwaberow / Getty Images North America /AFP)
Taking into account the discomfort of several users who watched ESPN on Star+, but now must do so from Disney+, where its live content is not available, we indicate the steps they must follow to enable this option, publishes Digital Trends.
- To start, you must go to the user profile area.
- Click on “Edit profiles”.
- Select the profile you want to enable ESPN.
- Under Parental Controls, look for the option “Live & Unrated”, which is disabled. Slide it to enable it.
- After that, click on “Done” and you can now enjoy ESPN.
This is how you can activate ESPN on Disney Plus Premium (Photo: @musictrendscol / X)
ESPN is an American subscription television channel group specializing in sports owned by ESPN Inc. It was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen along with his son Scott Rasmussen and Ed Egan.
Although it is one of the most successful sports networks, it has not been immune to criticism, as it has been accused of biased coverage, conflict of interest and controversies with broadcasters and individual analysts.
As of September 2018, ESPN is available to approximately 86 million television households in the United States, Wikipedia reports.
New Disney+ menu with Star and ESPN.
