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4 of 5 bars PRICE: FreeTASTY: Great
streaming quality gives mobile ESPN fans sweet sports
relief.BUMMER: Inability to stream on the app without a cable
package prevents more users from enjoying the it.COOL: Search
for programming via keywords, too.
WatchESPN is quite possibly the final frontier in ESPN being everywhere you
need it to be. Already on your TV, Internet, radio, fantasy sports leagues and
quite possibly your breakfast cereal, there wasn’t much ground left for the
network to cover. But with WatchESPN, now you can get the full ESPN broadcast
experience directly on your iPhone, provided you have a subscription to a cable
TV package that carries ESPN.
WatchESPN is specifically available to customers of Time Warner, Comcast,
Bright House, Verizon FiOS or Verizon High Speed with ESPN cable subscriptions
at the moment, which should cover quite a bit of the U.S. cable viewing
population. The app itself works pretty much like you’d imagine.
The app supports 4 ESPN channels: ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPN 3 and ESPN U, along with
“Buzzer Beater” a channel that hosts live look-ins for close contests. Each of
these channels is represented in the app’s handful of tabs. There’s a tab with
featured games, a tab to search for programming by sport, another to search by
channel and finally a keyword search where you can keep on the lookout for
anything not covered in the previous options.
It may not sound like much, and certainly WatchESPN isn’t exactly full of
surprises, but as a vehicle to bring the ESPN TV programming to your iPhone, it
works quite effectively. The broadcast is smooth and lag free on a Wi-Fi signal.
If you’re in a bind somewhere without a TV and you really want to catch a game,
WatchESPN is an excellent choice. It’s a shame there isn’t an option to purchase
the channels on the app if you don’t already have a cable package. For sports
fans that have already “cut the cord” the app turns into a simple list of ESPN
programming without the live streaming.
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