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For yet another weekend, YouTube TV subscribers were unable to watch college football on Disney-owned networks like ESPN and ABC as a result of a carriage dispute that has been ongoing since Oct. 30.
The contract dispute between Google-owned YouTube TV and Disney-owned ESPN that sparked a blackout on Oct. 31 has been a nightmare for sports fans who are subscribers of the streaming service.
College football fans were not happy with an update that surfaced on talks between Disney and YouTube TV over ESPN.
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A contractual dispute between Google and Disney has left YouTube TV users unable to watch college football games over the weekend.
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.