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Jump for joy! A deal has been reached.
Photo: Eric McCandless/Disney via Getty Images
To quote Homer Simpson, woo-hoo! Our corporate overlords are finally getting along. Disney and YouTube TV have squashed their carriage beef, signing a deal to bring all your favorite ESPN, ABC, and Disney properties back to YouTube’s streamer. Disney Entertainment co-chairmen Alan Bergman and Dana Walden and ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro praised the deal in a joint statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. “We are pleased that our networks have been restored in time for fans to enjoy the many great programming options this weekend, including college football,” they wrote. “Subscribers should see channels including ABC, ESPN and FX returning to their service over the course of the day, as well as any recordings that were previously in their Library,” a spokesperson for YouTube said Friday night. “We apologize for the disruption and appreciate our subscribers’ patience as we negotiated on their behalf.”
Disney’s channels — including ABC, ESPN, Freeform, and FX — went dark on YouTube TV October 30. It was the longest carriage dispute in recent memory, far exceeding the Charter Communications tiff in 2023. That only lasted 11 days. Reports found that this dispute was particularly bitter, with CEOs Bob Iger (Disney) and Sundar Pichai (Google) allegedly brought in to speed things along. It’s times like these one yearns for an old school antenna.
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Bethy Squires
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