has lost ABC, ESPN and multiple other Disney-owned channels after the two companies failed to reach a contract on Friday evening.
As a result, YouTube will be decreasing the monthly price of its TV streaming platform from $64.99 to $49.99 due to the loss of 25 channels, which include the FX networks, Freeform, the Disney channels, the National Geographic channels and eight local ABC stations. “We know this is frustrating news for our customers, and not what we wanted. We will continue conversations with Disney to advocate on your behalf in hopes of restoring their content on YouTube TV,” YouTube said in aIn a separate statement, Disney said YouTube — owned by Google — “declined to reach a fair deal” with Disney “based on market terms and conditions.”
“We stand ready to reach an equitable agreement with Google as quickly as possible in order to minimize the inconvenience to YouTube TV viewers by restoring our networks,” Disney said. “We hope Google will join us in that effort.” Disney had warned its customers earlier this week that it would be pulling its channels from YouTube TV on Friday at 11:59 p.m. if it wasn’t able to come to an agreement over the carriage dispute. In the past, Disney has also threatened to pull its channels from
JFC! How am I gonna watch Jeopardy!?
Let all these channels eat themselves. Im not paying for every service around. 3-4 is my limit. Figure it out losers. Netflix hulu DisneyPlusDay hbomax AmazonPrime ParamountPlus youtubetv
Google is seriously bad at negotiations or is just plain dumb. First roku, now disney?
This literally happened while watching the Laker game. Y’all trash.
This is so dumb. Cord-cutters don’t deserve this. BTW Disney, ESPN + ABC already make up almost 25% of the monthly cost of YouTube TV. I say drop the cost to $60 and make ESPN a paid tier like, Starz 😹😹😹
Just cable company things.
Not only did YouTube lose ABC, they had the nerve to charge me, today, my normal monthly rate of $64.99! Didn't get to see if a good guy got his deal on Shark Tank. Instead, we got tanked when ABC was shut off! I want a refund and ABC!!
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