Disney+ with Crave and TSN
Bell Media launched the bundles, with the Basic tier from $15.75 — described as “a savings of 24% and includes Crave Basic and Disney+ Standard with Ads”.
Canadian readers often arrive expecting the American bundle logic — Disney+, Hulu, ESPN — and find something different. Canada has a Disney bundle. Its sports half is TSN, and ESPN is not part of it.
Canada’s Disney bundle pairs Disney+ with Crave and TSN, launched on 27 August 2025, and Bell’s own announcement does not mention ESPN anywhere. There is no Canadian ESPN subscription to buy and no ESPN tile in the Canadian bundle. A residential US IP is only useful if what you want sits on the American ESPN service specifically — and TSN may already carry it.
If you are comparing against the American bundle, this is the difference that matters most.
Bell Media launched the bundles, with the Basic tier from $15.75 — described as “a savings of 24% and includes Crave Basic and Disney+ Standard with Ads”.
ESPN appears nowhere in that announcement. The sports component of the Canadian bundle is TSN.
“Basic Bundle — a savings of 24% and includes Crave Basic and Disney+ Standard with Ads”
Bell Media, announcing the bundles
So the Canadian equivalent of “Disney+ with ESPN” is “Disney+ with TSN”, and the two are not interchangeable. TSN is a Canadian sports network with Canadian rights.
TSN and RDS have historically carried ESPN programming under a supply agreement. We are not going to tell you that arrangement is in force today, because the most recent primary source we could find announcing it is from December 2013, and a thirteen-year-old press release is not evidence about 2026.
That is a deliberate gap rather than an oversight. The honest version is: check TSN’s own listing for the specific event you want. If it is there, you do not need an American subscription at all, and if it is not, you know what you are actually shopping for.
Canada is close enough to the American market that the bundle difference looks arbitrary. The agreement explains it in one sentence.
“The ESPN and Hulu Services are only available in the United States and certain of its territories.”
Disney+, ESPN, and Hulu Subscriber Agreement, effective 5 February 2026
That is why Bell’s bundle pairs Disney+ with Crave and TSN rather than with ESPN. It is not an omission on Bell’s part — ESPN is not a product that can be sold into a Canadian bundle.
The travel clause names the Disney+ Service, which is the part of the bundle that does cross borders:
“This Agreement applies if you purchase a subscription to the Disney+ Service in the U.S. and any supported U.S. territories and use it in other geographic locations where the Disney+ Service is made available.”
Same agreement, effective 5 February 2026
So a Canadian Disney+ subscription and an American ESPN subscription are governed by different sentences in the same agreement. Crave and TSN are outside it entirely, with their own Canadian terms.
Worth comparing against what Bell already sells you, because the overlap with TSN is real even where we will not assert its extent.
$139.99 per year
$319.99 per year
These are ESPN’s standalone US prices, checked 20 September 2026. They rose on 17 September 2026; subscribers from before 20 August 2026 keep the old price until their first billing date after that.
Canadian rights to North American sport are extensive, so the honest advice is to look up your specific event on TSN before paying for either of these.
Canada’s proximity to the American market cuts both ways: more of the sport is already licensed here, and more of it carries local- market blackouts that no connection removes.
Canada is the market where the local route most often already has what you want, which makes the first step a listings check rather than a network one.
Canadian rights to North American sport are broad. If the game is on TSN, no amount of network work is needed and the American subscription is wasted money.
If you hold the Disney+, Crave and TSN bundle launched on 27 August 2025, the sports half is already paid for. Check it before adding a third service.
Only if the event is genuinely American-only. Confirm the address reads as United States before loading ESPN.
Blackouts matter more in Canada than almost anywhere, because proximity to the US market means more events carry local-market restrictions.
Canadian readers usually have TSN or Crave installed already. Those apps are the comparison, not the competition.
Best for checking TSN listings and the American service side by side.
Same comparison; two tabs settle the question quickly.
A Canadian Apple Account carries TSN and Crave; the American ESPN app is separate.
Google Play country follows payment history rather than connection.
A blackout notice on a Canadian connection is a rights rule, not a sign that your network setup failed.
These four walkthroughs were recorded in October 2022 and show the American ESPN+ signup flow, now sold as ESPN Select. They do not cover TSN or Crave.
Worth buying only for events TSN does not carry. Same residential US connection on every plan; the difference is duration.
1 Month Pass
€9.99 each month after the 3-day trial.
6 Month Pass
Billed €44.94 every six months after the 3-day trial.
12 Month Pass
Billed €71.88 each year after the 3-day trial.
3-day free trial · 14-day money-back guarantee · cancel any time
You can reach the American ESPN service. Check TSN first, though — Canadian rights to North American sport are broad enough that the event is often already available to you.
No. ESPN+ was renamed ESPN Select, with ESPN Unlimited above it. Canadian guides written before the rename, and the four videos on this page, still use the old name.
The agreement is linked in full below and quoted selectively here. In Canada the more common blocker is a local-market blackout, which is a league rule rather than a network one.
No. Bell Media’s announcement of the Disney+, Crave and TSN bundles, launched 27 August 2025, does not mention ESPN anywhere. The sports component is TSN.
TSN and RDS have carried ESPN content under a supply agreement historically. We are not asserting that it is current, because the most recent primary source we could find announcing it is from December 2013. Check TSN’s listing for your specific event.
ESPN’s own terms say the service is only available in the United States and certain of its territories. The network location is one requirement; account creation and payment are separate ones.
Only if the event you want is on the American ESPN and not on TSN. Because Canadian rights to North American sport are extensive, that is a narrower case here than in most markets — check TSN first.
Every load-bearing claim on this page links to the page it came from. Prices and rights move; the sources are the thing to trust.
ESPN’s own current standalone monthly and annual prices.
Open ESPN Support →The full agreement, effective 5 February 2026, including the availability clause quoted above.
Read the agreement →The announcement of what Canada’s Disney bundle actually contains.
Read Bell Media →ESPN, Disney+ and Hulu are third-party services and are not affiliated with USip VPN. Prices, availability, devices and content rights can change.