{"id":971179,"date":"2025-11-01T10:44:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=971179"},"modified":"2025-11-01T10:44:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:14:38","slug":"disney-pulls-espn-abc-and-more-from-youtube-tv-as-contract-fight-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/01\/disney-pulls-espn-abc-and-more-from-youtube-tv-as-contract-fight-heats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney pulls ESPN, ABC and more from YouTube TV as contract fight heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A high-stakes standoff between two media heavyweights has left millions of YouTube TV subscribers without access to Disney-owned channels. According to CBS News, Disney networks including ABC, ESPN, FX, and National Geographic, have gone dark on the streaming service after the two companies failed to strike a new distribution deal. YouTube said in a blog post that Disney used the threat of a blackout \u201cas a negotiating tactic to force deal terms that would raise prices on our customers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The platform accused Disney of putting pressure on viewers to boost its own streaming ventures like Hulu + Live TV and Fubo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high-stakes standoff between two media heavyweights has left millions of YouTube TV subscribers without access to Disney-owned channels. According to CBS News, Disney networks including ABC, ESPN, FX, and National Geographic, have gone dark on the streaming service after the two companies failed to strike a new distribution deal. YouTube said in a blog post that Disney used the threat of a blackout \u201cas a negotiating tactic to force deal terms that would raise prices on our customers\u201d. The platform accused Disney of putting pressure on viewers to boost its own streaming ventures like Hulu + Live TV and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}