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Breaking News: YouTube TV loses ESPN, ABC and other Disney channels in fee dispute


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Dec. 17, 2021

YouTube TV loses ESPN, ABC and other Disney channels in fee dispute

Nearly 4 million YouTube TV customers lost access to ESPN, ABC, FX and other Walt Disney Co.-owned channels late Friday after a breakdown in negotiations over a new distribution agreement.

Tensions between the two powerful giants flared over fees that Disney has been demanding that Google pay for the rights to distribute Disney's linear TV channels as part of Google's YouTube TV's bundle of live channels. The Burbank entertainment company has been using the popularity of its networks as leverage to increase fees at a time when the cost of programming - particularly sports programming - has skyrocketed.

The deadline for a deal was 8:59 p.m. PST, and the deadline came and went without an accord.
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