Monthly bill: $85 to $110 per month
What you get: Fubo is a sports-centric service that provides live and on-demand channels from ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC in most markets. It recently raised prices by $5 a month. You also get cable channels (AMC, Bravo, Discovery, FX, HGTV, Syfy, and TLC) and sports networks (BeIn Sports, FS1, Golf Channel, MSG, NBA TV, and SNY). Thanks to a deal with Disney, the service now has ESPN (ESPN, ESPN 2, and ESPN 3), plus the SEC and ACC networks in certain markets.
Fubo’s Pro plan costs $85 a month and has more than 200 channels with local stations in most markets. It also includes regional MLB, NBA, and NFL games.
The $110-a-month Elite with Sports Plus plan has about 300 channels plus 4K video when available. This package adds the 55 additional sports, entertainment, and news channels you get with the Fubo Extra and News Plus add-on packages. Fubo’s Latino plan is $15 a month; it offers more than 50 channels.
Note that Fubo is currently the only streaming service that charges a fee for regional sports networks—up to $17 a month, depending on your area.
You can also add several premium channels. One plan combines MGM+, Showtime, and Starz for $20 per month. Separately, Showtime costs $11 a month; Starz costs $11 a month. Sports fans can get Sports Plus with NFL Red Zone, with NCAA games, and RedZone from the NFL Network, for an extra $11 per month. An $8-per-month Fubo Extra plan adds more TV shows, movies, news, sports, music, and kids’ entertainment. There are also several Spanish-language plans and add-ons.
Fubo recently rolled out a new MLB.TV direct-to-consumer add-on package for an additional $30 per month that lets baseball fans stream out-of-market games, both live and on demand.
One big piece of news is that Fubo and Disney announced that Disney will be combining its Hulu + Live TV business (see below) with Fubo at some point in the near future. One consequence of the deal is that it ends Fubo’s lawsuit against Disney (and Fox and Warner Bros.) over a proposed live sports streaming service called Venu Sports. (The three companies pulled the plug on Venu Sports shortly after the lawsuit was resolved, however.) Even after the deal is closed, Fubo and Hulu + Live TV will continue to be available to subscribers as separate services via their respective apps.
What you don’t get: Compared with many other services, Fubo’s on-demand library is limited. Also, Fubo hasn’t been able to reach a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery for its networks, including Discovery, Food Network, HGTV, and TLC, among others. It also still lacks the Turner sports networks, TBS, TNT, and truTV. Also missing are A&E networks, including A&E, History Channel, Lifetime, and Vice TV. It did reach a deal to restore the YES Network, home to Yankees games.
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