Disney Channels went dark on YouTube TV after the companies failed to reach an agreement before the October 30 deadline. Affected channels include ESPN, local ABC stations, ABC News, FX, NatGeo, Disney Channel and Freeform. “Last week, Disney used the threat of a YouTube TV power outage as a negotiating tactic to impose deal terms that would increase prices for our customers,” YouTube said in an announcement on his blog. “They are now making good on this threat by suspending their content on YouTube TV.” YouTube added that Disney’s decision harms its subscribers while benefiting its own live TV products, such as Hulu+Live TV and Fubo.
In a statement sent to Los Angeles TimesHowever, Disney accused Google’s YouTube TV of choosing to deny “subscribers the content they value most by refusing to pay fair rates for” [its] YouTube TV lost access to Disney channels in 2021, but they were immediately able to strike a deal that reinstated the channels the very next day. time.
Google has had to make several similar announcements over the past year. In February, YouTube TV nearly lost Paramount’s content, including CBS, CBS Sports and Nickelodeon, before reaching a last-minute deal. The same thing happened in August with Fox. Most recently, Google and NBCUniversal also reached a last-minute deal, even though YouTube TV lost access to Univision, the largest Spanish-language broadcaster in the United States.
