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Shortly after failing to negotiate a new deal before the October 30 deadline, Disney pulled the plug on its channels on YouTube TV. Both companies have thrown accusations at each other over the failure to land a new deal, but we could be close to some kind of compromise. In an email sent to Disney, YouTube TV revealed it is ready to bring back ABC, but there is a catch.
According to the email to Disney, which YouTube TV shared publicly, it seems that the streaming platform is willing to bring ABC back, but there is a catch, and that is it wants ESPN as well.
It turns out that Disney is requesting that YouTube TV restore access to ABC for one day due to Election Day. YouTube TV appeared to be semi-willing, but it also requested that Disney bring back ESPN, and that subscribers will be able to access both channels indefinitely while both parties continue their negotiations.
According to YouTube TV’s email, “To truly achieve what is best for our mutual customers, we propose immediately restoring the Disney channels that our customers watch: ABC and the ESPN networks, while we continue to negotiate. Those are the channels that people want.”
The platform also pointed out that Disney has other alternatives of streaming its content. There is the ABC News YouTube page that could be used to livestream news information. Then, there are also ABC local stations with their own YouTube pages that could do the same. This means that while YouTube TV is willing, it is playing hardball.
Disney had previously issued a statement to Deadline saying, “Despite the impasse that led to the current blackout, we have asked YouTube TV to restore ABC for Election Day so subscribers have access to the information they rely on. We believe in putting the public interest first and hope YouTube TV will take this small step for their customers while we continue to work toward a fair agreement.”
Right now, it appears that the failure to negotiate new terms is turning out uglier than we thought. It’s not the first time we’re hearing about licensing deals expiring because both sides can’t find a favorable deal. However, this spat is becoming bigger than we anticipated. So much so that YouTube TV is actually willing to compensate some subscribers with $10 a month over the next 6 months.
YouTube TV has called Disney’s negotiations “unnecessarily aggressive,” while Disney had accused Google of “exploiting its position” to gain favorable terms. Namely, YouTube TV wanted additional channels such as Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN.
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After a weekend of everyone blaming YouTube TV for losing the Disney channels, including ESPN, YouTube TV is finally coming out on the offensive, having an unnamed exec speak with Deadline. Claiming that Disney has been “unnecessarily aggressive” in negotiations, and has an “antiquated view” of pay-TV economics.
The exec also apparently said that Disney is “not being reasonable to expect steep carriage fee increases.” They also expanded to say that there are “aspects of their portfolio that are doing well on our platform. Disney has a very broad portfolio of channels where viewership on many networks is in decline or nonexistent.
Essentially, Disney is forcing YouTube TV to carry its entire catalog of channels. We’ve also seen rumors that Disney wants its partners to carry ESPN Unlimited and Disney+ as part of their carriage deals. That would drastically increase the cost of YouTube TV, something that YouTube TV doesn’t want to do.
Nearly half of the channels on YouTube TV are owned by Disney, and forcing a provider to carry the entire catalog is not out of the ordinary. NBCU, Paramount, and FOX all do this. They have a set of channels that every provider must carry in their base plan, plus a set of channels that can be provided in an add-on.
Disney is also responsible for the majority of the cost of YouTube TV, since they carry the majority of sports on YouTube TV, which is not cheap.
There’s still hope that a deal will be worked out here between Disney and YouTube TV, but it might take some time. And the longer this takes, the more it benefits Disney. As many are leaving YouTube TV to watch college football elsewhere. And the main competitors are Disney-owned.
There’s Hulu + Live TV which Disney obviously owns, there’s ESPN Unlimited which has all of the ESPN content, and then there’s Fubo. Disney actually took a 70% stake in Fubo recently, and is merging it with Hulu + Live TV.
So, YouTube TV is forcing people to leave their platform for Disney-owned platforms. So even if Disney caves, they’ve already won. Disney is trying their hardest to have a monopoly in the pay-TV world, which should draw the attention of regulators.
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Paying a flat fee for a streaming service is a great alternative to buying TV shows or movies individually. To a certain extent, it solves the issue with piracy because at around $10-$20 a month, it’s pretty affordable. However, the problem with streaming is licensing. If these platforms cannot strike a deal with movie studios or distributors, they will lose those shows. That’s exactly what happened here with YouTube TV and Disney, although the good news is that there is some compensation.
According to a post on Reddit by u/Happy-Spare4582, it seems that YouTube TV is offering compensation to some users over the Disney channel loss. It’s not a particularly huge compensation at $10 monthly credit for the next six months, but we suppose it’s better than nothing. It’s safe to assume that Google doesn’t want users to cancel their YouTube TV subscription.
However, even then, Google isn’t making this particularly easy. Users will have to find the compensation in the account management page. They have to go to Manage membership > Manage Base plan section on the YouTube TV website on their PC to claim it. As if navigating the settings wasn’t enough, the post on Reddit suggests that it might not be available to everyone.
Ultimately, if you are lucky enough to have been chosen to receive this compensation, it brings YouTube TV’s subscription down to $73 a month, with a total savings of $60. If you want, you could always use that $10, top it up a bit more, and subscribe directly to Disney. This means you’ll spend a little bit more, but it’s a workaround for the time-being. If not, you will lose access to 20 channels from Disney’s network. This might be important to some, especially given the ongoing college football, NFL, and NHL seasons.
Like we said, licensing deals are an important part of a streaming platform. If it cannot get enough shows on its platform, users will just subscribe to another. Obviously original content matters too, but users want to be able to watch other stuff too.
Both Google and Disney have been trying to negotiate a deal, which expired on October 30. However, the reason the negotiations failed is because Google wanted better rates (obviously). It also wanted its subscribers to access additional Disney content, like Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+.
Disney told CNBC, “This is the latest example of Google exploiting its position at the expense of their own customers.” YouTube, in return, responded by saying, “Unfortunately, Disney is proposing costly economic terms that would raise prices on YouTube TV customers and give our customers fewer choices, while benefiting Disney’s own live TV products — like Hulu + Live TV and, soon, Fubo.”
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YouTube TV has been routinely angering its customers, though it’s not all its fault. Between raising prices to almost double what it initially launched at – now $82.99 per month – and losing channels, many customers are not happy. But luckily, you can cancel your YouTube TV subscription. That’s the beauty of cord-cutting. The ability to ditch a service for a competitor in just minutes. Meanwhile, with cable, that is not possible. Most areas only have one or two cable operators available. So that’s another reason that it’s a good idea to switch to a streaming service. Makes it easier to vote with your wallet.
YouTube TV has recently lost the Bally Sports regional sports networks (though that’s more Sinclair’s fault than YouTube TV’s, since they are removing the networks from all the streaming services). Then they almost lost the NBC networks, which is roughly a fifth of YouTube TV’s channel offerings. However, NBC decided to step up and not force YouTube TV to include Peacock with its membership. And surprisingly, the price did not go up, which is a good thing.
If you just want to stop using YouTube TV for a few weeks, maybe cut some costs, we’d recommend pausing YouTube TV instead. That will keep all of your recordings and continue recording, but without charging you. You can pause YouTube TV for up to six months. We’ll also show you how to pause your YouTube TV membership in this tutorial.
To cancel YouTube TV, you’ll need to either open the app, or go to tv.youtube.com. The process is virtually the same, aside from tapping versus clicking.
Click on that. Now you can see options for pausing or cancelling your membership.
After you click cancel, it’ll ask to make sure you want to cancel, and just go through that process until it has successfully cancelled.
And that’s it. It’s pretty simple to cancel, and that’s one thing that YouTube TV still has over cable. The ability to easily cancel TV service, without needing to call them and explain to them you don’t want it any longer.
Pausing YouTube TV has a pretty similar process to cancelling it. Start out by opening the YouTube TV app.
Now, you’ll see an option to pause your account. It defaults to eight weeks, but you can adjust the slider all the way up to 24 weeks (or about six months). It will also show you below when your account will resume. YouTube TV also mentions that your recordings will be kept, which is a big deal.
Now, just tap on Pause.
You’ll now get a confirmation that your account is put on pause (you’ll also get an email with details). And you’re all set.
That’s just how easy it is to pause your YouTube TV account. You can also choose to unpause it at any time. So if you paused it by mistake, or paused it for too long, you can unpause it and be back in business. Keep in mind that if you share this membership with others, their accounts will also be paused.
Cancelling means that you’re not planning to return anytime soon. While pausing means that you plan to return in a month or two, or even longer.
If you do want to get rid of YouTube TV for a couple of months, pausing is the right way to go. This is because it will keep all of your shows in your library. While cancelling will get rid of it all.
However, with this price hike, YouTube TV is likely going to be seeing a whole lot of people cancelling their membership, unfortunately. Even though YouTube TV is a really good service – I’d still say, one of the best out there. At $65 per month, it’s a pretty tough ask. Especially since YouTube TV only has one plan, so you’re stuck paying for all of those channels at $65/month. Instead of having a smaller plan option that costs, say $50 per month for fewer channels.
Pausing is a good idea if you are looking to cut some costs for a few months, or if your favorite shows are off season now, so you don’t need YouTube TV. And that will save you $65 per month, which is no small cost, to be quite honest. Most other streaming Live TV services don’t really offer this ability. So this is a big deal.
YouTube TV has continued to improve its service, and is looking to add some more flexible packages. So we may not see any more price increases on the base plan. But we may lose some channels from that base plan. With them moving into the add-ons. This is simply because the costs to carry these channels are getting pretty pricey.
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Overnight, YouTube TV emailed all of its subscribers to let them know that ESPN and ABC channels are no longer available on the platform, as of October 30, 2025. Why is that? Well, Disney and YouTube TV are in the middle of a carriage dispute, likely about fees.
You see, every time one of these contracts come up, the content provider (Disney, NBCU, Paramount, etc) all try to squeeze as much money as they can out of the carrier (YouTube TV, Comcast, Spectrum, etc). And YouTube TV is looking to get fair rates, versus paying what bigger companies like Comcast would have to pay.
YouTube TV and Disney will likely come to an agreement pretty soon. This happened the last time the contract was up, though it was later in the year, in late December, so a bit surprising that the contract is up for renewal now. But that outage only lasted about 2 days. So we’d expect a similar time-frame here. Keep in mind that there’s more for Disney to lose here versus YouTube TV.
YouTube TV, for its part, is going to offer customers a $20 credit if the channels are off of its platform for an extended period of time.
Let’s clear up some myths here. While it seems like these carriage disputes only happen to YouTube TV, that is far from the truth. This happens with every single cable company and live TV streamer. YouTube TV has a louder audience, however.
Google has noted that they are not going to “agree to terms that disadvantage our members while benefitting Disney’s own live TV products.” Which is a problem in the industry now. NBCU and Disney both make the content and also deliver it with Hulu + Live TV and Comcast Cable. YouTube TV doesn’t make the content, they simply deliver it.
Content providers like Disney continue to overpay for content, and try to pass those costs down to the carrier like YouTube TV, and Google won’t have it. Good for Google for sticking up for the consumer here.
Here are the channels that will be removed until a deal is reached:
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