Sports and news have been "the last true holdouts" to make the jump to streaming, says Mike Proulx, vice president and research director at Forrester Research, and any streaming service that includes such a concentration of them "is ushering in a kind of last nail in the coffin of legacy TV."

ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro’s big bet is not all-or-nothing.

Subscribers will have access to all of ESPN’s 12 networks, including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNEWS, ESPN Deportes, SECN, ACCN, ESPN+, ESPN on ABC, SECN+, ACCNEX and ESPN3.

Disneyland officials told theme park reporter Scott Gustin that early entry “was not widely used.”