Overview
- Disney-owned channels went dark late Oct. 30 into Oct. 31, and a Disney employee memo says some YouTube TV subscribers also saw previously recorded shows deleted.
- YouTube TV argues Disney’s proposed rates would require price increases and says it will issue a one-time $20 credit if the outage lasts an extended period.
- Disney accuses Google’s YouTube TV of leveraging market power and refusing to pay fair rates, saying the platform is denying viewers access to valuable programming.
- A YouTube executive told Deadline that Disney has been “unnecessarily aggressive,” pushing full-portfolio carriage as discussions also touch on genre-based tiers and reported complications around ESPN Unlimited.
- Subscribers who bought NFL Sunday Ticket as a YouTube TV add-on cannot cancel the base plan without losing Sunday Ticket access, leaving some customers effectively locked in during the blackout.