YouTube TV loses Disney channels
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The dispute is between ABC/Disney and YouTube. Cox Media Group and its ABC affiliates, including WFTV, are not part of the negotiations. We do not have a say in where ABC/Disney channels are carried. This dispute only affects YouTube TV subscribers. ABC is available to watch on other providers and over the air via an antenna.
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“Unfortunately, Google’s YouTube TV has chosen to deny their subscribers the content they value most by refusing to pay fair rates for our channels, including ESPN and ABC,” a Disney spokesperson told Variety Magazine in a report on Oct. 30.
NEW YORK (AP) — Disney content has gone dark on YouTube TV, leaving subscribers of the Google-owned live streaming platform without access to major networks like ESPN and ABC.
Newsweek has rounded up alternative ways you can stream your favorite shows and sports games during the blackout.
YouTube, owned by Google, has removed all ABC affiliates from its live TV service. ABC is owned by the Walt Disney Company, but even local affiliates not owned by Disney — including KSTP — have been pulled from the service.
Disney's top brass is telling the troops that they're going to continue to fight for a "fair deal" with Google's YouTube TV, after the internet service pulled ESPN, ABC and other Disney networks Thursday night.
YouTube TV subscribers lost access to Disney-owned networks— including ABC, ESPN and FX— after the companies failed to reach a new carriage deal.
Cut off from ESPN and ABC, streaming viewers are caught in the middle of a contract battle that will feel very familiar to anyone who remembers linear TV.