I understand your frustration. I know maybe you won't want to hear this, and it may not add much. If you look at my post from September 7, I did send the issue tracking thread the Roku moderator opened for me that is now closed to ESPN tech support. It's not acceptable, but there are several alternative workarounds/suggestions that other Roku users have added in there; maybe you've already read it, so I apologize if you were already aware.
The fact that ESPN hasn't fixed it yet even after I sent them that information tells me I made the right choice in giving up. It's not really worth your stress level. I spent a whole two weeks driving myself crazy trying to get both companies to work it out. Save yourself any more time on it.
Maybe Disney will get it fixed by the time they integrate some ESPN content into Disney + later this year, but I won't hold out too much hope. It sounds like this issue started around April, but my personal issues with it started in June. As it is, I really just don't use the ESPN app anymore for any ESPN channels because of this issue, and I rarely use it for ESPN+ anymore because I found these recent problems pretty frustrating. I cancelled the ESPN+ portion of my Disney Bundle as a result and will just stick with Disney + and Hulu. It's probably time to consider using another device if I need ESPN, as much as I overall like Roku. But maybe the new ESPN D2C app they put out next year will work properly on Roku, and people with tv providers will be able to use it.
Getting off my soapbox now. Thanks for reading. 🙂
