ESPN, YouTube and Disney
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Rising costs of sports rights fees and other other factors have fueled YouTube's disputes with Disney and other media companies.
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.
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It's Day 7 of the blackout of ESPN, ABC and other Disney networks on YouTube TV - and the patience of the internet TV service's subscribers is wearing thin. Disney's nets went dark on YouTube TV service just before midnight ET on Thursday,
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Rising costs of sports rights fees and other other factors have fueled YouTube's disputes with Disney and other media companies.