• Amazon Prime Video has “Thursday Night Football.” A stand-alone Prime Video subscription costs $8.99 a month. If you have a Prime membership ($14.99 a month), the games are included.
• ESPN+, which costs $11.99 a month, has most Monday-night games.
• Paramount+, which starts at $7.99 a month, streams the NFL games that air on CBS.
• Fox is streaming the Super Bowl for free on Tubi this year.
• NFL Sunday Ticket with YouTube TV is the simplest way to watch teams outside your market. You can add the package on top of an existing YouTube TV subscription or as a standalone service through YouTube (pricing for the 2025-26 season hasn’t been announced yet). It can also be bundled with NFL RedZone for an extra $10.99.
• NFL RedZone, which shows the key moments from every game on Sunday afternoons, is also available as an add-on to live-TV streaming services like Fubo, Hulu+Live TV, Sling TV, and the standard YouTube TV plan.

NBA and WNBA

And you could pair any of these with an indoor TV antenna to access your local TV stations for games on ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox.

• Max streams a selection of NBA and WNBA games. It’ll cost $9.99 a month with ads, plus an additional $9.99 a month for the B/R Sports add-on.

MLB has its own streaming service and streams some games through partners Apple TV+ and Roku.Still, the packages are a bit cheaper, with most starting at around a month, compared to the 0 cost of the average cable and internet bill in major US cities.

• NBA League Pass starts at $49.99 a season. It can also be bundled with a YouTube TV subscription for an additional $14.99 a month.
• WNBA League Pass is $12.99 a month.

MLB

College sports have a streaming home on ESPN through an exclusive deal with the NCAA.

• Apple TV+ streams “Friday Night Baseball,” which features a doubleheader every Friday when in season. The service costs $9.99/month.
• Roku offers Sunday MLB games for free with a Roku streaming device.
• MLB Network, the league’s TV network for live out-of-market games, offers a stand-alone streaming subscription for $5.99 a month. For an extra dollar a month, it offers an “At Bat” bundle with live game audio, minor league games, and highlights.

Soccer

• NBC’s Peacock streams a selection of live Premier League matches. The service costs $7.99 a month with ads.
• Paramount+ has the rights to the UEFA Champions League games through its standard subscription, which costs $7.99 a month.
• Apple TV streams Major League Soccer through the league’s direct-to-consumer option, MLS Season Pass. It costs $14.99 a month through the Apple TV app, or $12.99 a month with a $9.99 Apple TV+ subscription.

General fans of the sport would be more interested in a mix of NBA games, on the other hand.

College sports

This is set to change with the coming 2025-26 season, where NBA and WNBA games will be spread across Amazon, Peacock, and ESPN’s upcoming stand-alone service.

• ESPN+ carries a selection of ESPN’s rights to 40 NCAA championships, like football and women’s basketball, with some rounds exclusively available on the platform.
• Paramount+ also carries a few college events, including the March Madness games that air on CBS.
• Peacock has Big Ten games.
• B/R Sports has the rights to college football and the March Madness tournament through a Max subscription.

Combat sports

Companies such as Fubo, YouTube TV, Sling TV, and Hulu + Live TV offer streaming alternatives to the basic cable bundle. These services carry live sports from most of the major broadcasters and sports networks, such as ESPN and TNT, as well as entertainment channels and DVR options.

• ESPN+ has UFC and the PFL. Pay-per-view fights are also on ESPN+.
• Fight Pass, UFC’s streaming service, is $9.99 a month or $95.99/year. The pass gives you the entire UFC library, pay-per-view preliminary fights, and other combat sports.
• Netflix streams WWE’s “Raw” on Monday nights, which premiered earlier this year to 4.9 million viewers around the world.
• Peacock streams other live WWE events.

What’s next: stand-alone ESPN and ‘skinny’ sports bundles

The new offerings could hasten cable TV’s decline. Traditional pay-TV services such as cable and satellite lost roughly 50 million subscribers in the last 10 years, going from being in about 85% of households to 36% as of the third quarter of 2024, according to MoffettNathanson. Meanwhile, Leichtman Research Group’s analysis of seven top streamers, including Netflix, Disney+, and Max, found those platforms had added over 28 million domestic subscribers in the last year alone.

• The fall launch of ESPN’s flagship streaming service, which is expected to include ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN News and some college conferences, along with the ability to watch things that are on ESPN+.
• A new sports-TV bundle from Fubo.
• A “skinny” sports bundle from DirecTV called MySports. MySports will allow DirecTV users to pick and choose which networks are most important to them, and bundle them together for $49.99 for the first three months.

Wolk, the analyst, said there are two main types of sports fans: “You have fans of a team, and people who are fans of a sport.”