YouTube TV and Disney Dispute Update
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Here's how to watch ESPN and ABC college football games in Week 11 without YouTube TV, as Disney and Google are still in a carriage dispute.
Rising costs of sports rights fees and other other factors have fueled YouTube's disputes with Disney and other media companies.
With the blackout of ESPN, ABC and other Disney networks on YouTube TV, 24% of subscribers said they have already canceled or plan to, a survey found.
The release of the memo to ESPN employees is the latest twist in the protracted stand-off between the distributor and content company.
Rising costs of sports rights fees and other other factors have fueled YouTube's disputes with Disney and other media companies.
Disney and YouTube TV still have no deal in place, three of Disney’s most senior TV executives told staffers in a memo Friday, and the company faces the prospect of another weekend heavy with sports telecasts that won’t be seen by a significant portion of potential viewers.
Echoing disagreements between YouTube and music rights holders, Alphabet-owned YouTube TV is currently in fraught negotiations with Disney over the amounts the pay TV streaming pl