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Dave Portnoy addressed the ESPN-YouTube TV blackout on Monday’s Wake Up Barstool, offering his take on the carriage dispute that has left approximately 10 million subscribers without access to Disney-owned channels since last Thursday.
Disney's warnings to consumers come a week before its distribution contract with YouTube TV expires as football and pro basketball get underway.
If you’re a YouTube TV customer, it means you’ve lost access to ESPN and ABC, among others, just as another big weekend of college football kicks off with a slate that includes Vanderbilt vs. Texas, Miami vs. SMU, Georgia vs. Florida, Notre Dame vs. Boston College, South Carolina vs. Ole Miss, Oklahoma vs. Tennessee, and more.
Don't get spooked, but viewers of ABC Television Network stations who rely on YouTube TV to deliver the local broadcast station aligned with the Disney-owned offering could suffer a "blackout" come Halloween,
The long-anticipated collision of two media heavyweights over pay-TV distribution terms is at hand, with Disney on Thursday warning YouTube TV viewers that its networks could vanish next week. The companies’ existing distribution agreement expires at midnight ET next Thursday,