Disney, YouTube TV reach distribution deal
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Disney and YouTube TV reached a new deal to bring channels like ABC and ESPN back to the Google-owned live streaming platform Friday.
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Disney, Google CEOs join YouTube TV carriage negotiations
Marchand also reports that Disney CEO Bob Iger and Google chief executive Sundar Pichai are getting more involved in the negotiations, which could be another sign that talks are moving forward. Iger talked about the negotiations on Thursday morning, during Disney’s conference call with analysts to discuss its quarterly earnings report.
After a two-week dispute, Disney and YouTube TV came to terms on a carriage deal that ends a blackout for channels like ESPN and ABC.
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.