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YouTube TV has a pattern of feuding with media companies, Disney being the latest. With 21 channels missing, we want to know your essentials.
Millions of people cut the cord on cable to save money, only to pay as much for streaming, like YouTube TV and Hulu+ Live TV.
YouTube TV customers are bracing for another frustrating weekend. For the last week, YouTube TV's 10 million subscribers have been denied access to ESPN, ABC and other Walt Disney Co. channels in a dispute that has swelled into one of the largest TV blackouts in a decade.
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What The Tech? Hulu vs. YouTube TV
YouTube TV costs about $83 a month for the base plan. Hulu Live TV is about ninety dollars. But here is why Hulu Live can still be a better deal. The plan includes Hulu’s on-demand library, Disney+, and ESPN+. If you already pay for those separately, you will save about twenty dollars a month with the bundle.
Disney and Google have been locked in a standoff since Oct. 30, leaving YouTube TV customers without Disney’s slate of networks like ABC and ESPN. After the two sides failed to agree on a new carriage rights deal,
The standoff has left sports fans who use YouTube TV without coverage of some of their favorite teams and shows for two straight weekends, as another slate of college football games and a "Monday Night Football" matchup loom this weekend.
Disney's carriage fight with Google's YouTube TV is beginning to create some issues for some of the company's most popular media properties. "NBC Nightly News" was able to claim victory over ABC's ‘World News Tonight" last week among viewers between 25 and 54 - the demographic most coveted by advertisers.