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YouTube TV lost Disney content last week amid ongoing negotiations, but the losses are hitting Google Play, YouTube, and Google TV too.
Google claims that Disney is trying to "force deal terms that would raise prices on our customers," indicating that Disney's asking price for the content is too high. Disney asserts that YouTube TV and Google are "not interested in achieving a fair deal," suggesting that Google is trying to leverage its market position to devalue Disney's content.
The ongoing, bitter contract dispute between Google and Disney has claimed another major casualty, and this one hits right at the heart of your digital movie library. Just days after Disney pulled all its live channels from YouTube TV and yanked its entire movie catalog from Google's sales and rental storefronts,
YouTube TV begins rolling out $20 credits to subscribers amid the ongoing Disney channel blackout affecting ESPN, ABC, and National Geographic.
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Disney is losing $30M per week as carriage talks with YouTube TV leave millions without ESPN live sports and primetime programming.
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