{"id":741393,"date":"2026-05-22T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/741393\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T22:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:00:16","slug":"ishbia-launches-single-app-for-suns-and-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/741393\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishbia launches single app for Suns and Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">The Suns and Mercury officially launched their concurrent direct-to-consumer product Friday, with the unveiling of the Arizona\u2019s Family Sports streaming app. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">At the same time Suns and Mercury owner Mat Ishbia was extending the teams\u2019 linear package through 2030 with Arizona\u2019s Family Channel 3, his staff had been collaborating with Gray-owned Arizona\u2019s Family to create a digital platform to house both Suns+ and Merc+ \u2014 the first NBA and WNBA teams to appear side by side on a single DTC product.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">The result is the Arizona\u2019s Family Sports app, as Ishbia tries to upgrade a Suns and Mercury streaming service that has driven only sporadic revenue. Last season, Suns+ accounted for only 10% of Suns viewership across Arizona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">According to the Suns and Mercury, ViewLift will be the tech partner for the Arizona\u2019s Family Sports App &#8212; replacing Kiswe, which had supported Suns+ and Merc+ since 2023. The deal was handled in-house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Starting immediately, the new app will stream all non-national Mercury live games, pregame and postgame shows and provide exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes content and other original programming. Suns+, the Valley Suns and Phoenix Rising FC &#8212; and content surrounding those teams &#8212; will join the app in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Suns and Mercury officially launched their concurrent direct-to-consumer product Friday, with the unveiling of the Arizona\u2019s Family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,6,2065,472,4045,604],"class_list":["post-741393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix-suns","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-phoenixsuns","tag-suns"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116620481234990619","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}