The impasse carries clear commercial pain. Morgan Stanley has put the cost to Disney at roughly $30 million a week, or about $4.3 million a day, while YouTube TV risks losing subscribers the longer marquee sports and primetime shows remain unavailable.

This is not the dark mode Tennessee football fans wanted to see this weekend. YouTube TV blacked out Disney's television channels, including ABC and the ESPN family of networks, late on Oct. 30 after the two sides could not come to a contract agreement.

ESPN programs will be removed from YouTube TV on Oct. 31 if a deal is not reached by then. Disney, the company that owns ESPN, and Google, the company the owns YouTube TV, are in a stalemate in contract negotiations for an agreement regarding Disney ...

A growing array of sports advertisers have started to pressure networks to let them sponsor very granular elements of TV sports telecasts

Fans will be the biggest losers no matter who is to blame. Nearly 10 million YouTube TV subscribers lost access to ESPN and ABC college football games. YouTube TV and Disney released conflicting statements to subscribers amid carriage dispute. Fans must ...

Disney has pulled its channels from YouTube TV after it failed to reach a new contract agreement with parent company Google. Texas football fans may need to seek alternatives to watch

YouTube TV subscribers lost access to Disney-owned channels, including ESPN and ABC, due to a contract dispute. Sports fans can find alternative ways to watch ESPN college football on other streaming platforms. While ESPN+ and Disney+ do not offer free ...