ESPN, YouTube and college football
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The blackout of all Disney's networks — including ABC, ESPN, ESPN 2, SEC Network, among others — on YouTube TV has now reached over a week. The previous deal between Disney and Google, which is YouTube TV's parent company, expired at the end of the day on Oct. 30, leaving users of the streaming platform without Disney's catalog since then.
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Disney execs give status update on talks with YouTube TV ahead of jam-packed sports weekend
Unfortunately, we are headed into another sports-packed weekend without a deal in place,” Disney executives wrote in a memo on Friday.
The answer is a predictably unsatisfying mix of "maybe a smidgen," "probably less than you think" and "it's complicated."
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YouTube TV-ABC, ESPN dispute could black out Dallas Cowboys' Monday Night Football game for millions
A contract dispute between Google and Disney wiped out college football games on ESPN and ABC for millions of YouTube TV subscribers and now it threatens the Cowboys' Monday Night Football game.