ESPN, ABC blacked out on YouTube TV
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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 suspended ESPN, ABC content on YouTube TV after the companies failed to reach a new contractual agreement.
Disney content has gone dark on YouTube TV, leaving subscribers of the Google-owned live streaming platform without access to major networks like
You can tell that the people at TNT are having a fun time watching ESPN destroy what little goodwill they have with fans. For those that haven't been following, YouTube TV axed all ESPN and ABC programming from their subscription service after failing to agree to a new deal with the Disney-owned
Disney Goes Dark on YouTube TV. Why the House of Mouse and Google Are Feuding. Disney channels including ESPN and ABC disappeared from Google’s YouTube TV overnight, after the two sides failed to come to terms on a new streaming agreement.
Disney’s top brass told the troops that the media company’s leaders are 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.
Channels owned by The Walt Disney Co., including ABC, ESPN, Disney Channel, Freeform and others will be pulled from the Google-owned pay-TV service at midnight ET after the two sides failed to come to terms on a new carriage agreement ahead of a midnight deadline.
Google, which owns YouTube TV, has removed ABC stations, including WDHN in Dothan and WMBB in Panama City, as well as ESPN, from its lineup. It also removed other channels owned by Disney.
Subscribers to YouTube TV suddenly lost access to channels like ESPN and ABC on Thursday night. This is as a result of a carriage dispute between the owners of the respective platforms, The Walt