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Why are ESPN, ABC and Disney channels not on YouTube TV? Here are the games you won't be able to watch on Saturday.
College football fans were not happy with an update that surfaced on talks between Disney and YouTube TV over ESPN.
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A contractual dispute between Google and Disney has left YouTube TV users unable to watch college football games over the weekend.
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.
When the Disney nets were first pulled from YouTube TV, the internet company said that if the channels were unavailable for "an extended period of time," it would offer subscribers a $20 credit — and now those credits are about to arrive.
However, not every problem is a new one. While many online options, like YouTube and Hulu, offer Live TV packages similar to the cable and satellite that people have been used to, they also can fall victim to the same conflicts,
YouTube and Disney's negotiations enter week two as ESPN and ABC continue to remain inaccessible for YouTube TV subscribers.