Disney, YouTube and TV Blackout
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The disagreement causing the ESPN and ABC outage stems from the "carriage fee" that YouTube TV pays Disney to broadcast its channels. Disney has faced similar negotiating standoffs with other broadcasters in recent years, including a 2021 outage on YouTubeTV that was resolved in two days.
Newsweek has rounded up alternative ways you can stream your favorite shows and sports games during the blackout.
Google and The Walt Disney Company have reached an impasse in negotiating an agreement for the continued carriage of their channels including WISN a local ABC affiliate on Google’s internet-delivered video service YouTubeTV.
The first upload to YouTube turned 20 years old this week and the video platform’s success story is arguably one of the more unusual ones the internet has to offer. Starting out with amateur videos - the first one created by the founders themselves - as ...