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YouTube and Disney's negotiations enter week two as ESPN and ABC continue to remain inaccessible for YouTube TV subscribers.
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YouTube TV offers $20 credit to customers (which likely means no Monday Night Football, again)
YouTube TV has sent an email to subscribers explaining that a $20 credit is coming.
On Sunday, YouTube TV formally informed customers that it is issuing a $20 credit as a result of the company’s ongoing carriage dispute with Disney which has kept the ESPN family of networks off of the platform since Halloween.
This is the third time in two months that YouTube TV has faced a contract dispute, but this one has had the largest consumer impact, by far.
Disney and YouTube TV's parent company, Google, have yet to agree on a new licensing contract, leaving YouTube TV subscribers in a bind.
On the one hand, $20—which Google previously promised users if a previously unnamed amount of time, now revealed to be “about a week and change” had passed—isn’t that much, given that a monthly YouTube TV subscription currently runs users $82.
Disney and YouTube TV still have no deal in place, three of Disney’s most senior TV executives told staffers in a memo Friday, and the company faces the prospect of another weekend heavy with sports telecasts that won’t be seen by a significant portion of potential viewers.
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