Hulu to be fully integrated into Disney+ app, CEO Bob Iger announces

LOS ANGELES -- The Walt Disney Company announced it volition beryllium afloat integrating Hulu into Disney+ adjacent twelvemonth successful hopes of making it easier for users to find their favourite shows successful 1 place.

"This volition make an awesome bundle of entertainment, pairing the highest-caliber brands and franchises, large wide entertainment, kids programming, news, and industry-leading unrecorded sports contented successful a azygous app," said Disney CEO Bob Iger, who announced the alteration during the company's quarterly net telephone Wednesday morning.

Iger said Hulu volition present go the company's planetary wide amusement marque and volition regenerate the Star tile connected Disney+ internationally this fall.

Over the coming months, Disney volition beryllium implementing improvements wrong the Disney+ app, including caller features and a much personalized homepage.

The two-in-one streaming app volition beryllium disposable adjacent year.

Meantime, ESPN, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, announced Wednesday that ESPN's direct-to-consumer streaming work and its "enhanced" ESPN App volition get connected August 21.

The motorboat of ESPN DTC coincides with the commencement of the assemblage shot and NFL seasons, US Open tennis, planetary soccer, women's assemblage soccer, volleyball, tract hockey, and much - with the commencement of the WNBA playoffs, PLL playoffs, and NBA and NHL seasons, arsenic good arsenic UFC and WWE events conscionable astir the corner.

ESPN DTC volition connection 2 plans, including an unlimited program for $29.99/month that gives fans entree to each of ESPN's linear networks, covering 47,000 unrecorded events each year, on-demand replays, workplace shows, archetypal programming and more.

This comes aft ESPN announced Tuesday that it volition officially get the National Football League (NFL) Network successful a landmark statement that gives the NFL a 10% equity involvement successful ESPN.

The statement betwixt the sports media elephantine and the NFL aims to "set a caller modular for however nonrecreational shot is delivered, experienced and celebrated by fans," the companies said successful a property merchandise astir the deal.

The Walt Disney Company is the genitor institution of Hulu, ESPN and this ABC station.