"Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. YouTube TV is the most popular and successful live-TV streaming service, far outpacing its rivals in the cable-as-internet game. But the platform has been waging lots of high-profile, ugly battles with various entertainment giants-and it may be losing once-loyal fans and subscribers as a result."
"The most recent blowup with Disney has been dragging on for weeks and resulted, on Oct. 31, in a still-ongoing mass blackout of all its channels on YouTube TV (ESPN, ABC, Lifetime, FX, National Geographic, the SEC Network, and many more). If you're a sports fan, news consumer, sitcom enthusiast, or wilderness lover who happens to pay $82.99 per month for a YouTube TV subscription, you've been locked out from the Disney empire for at least a week-with no relief coming anytime soon,"
YouTube TV remains the leading live-TV streaming service but has faced repeated high-profile carriage disputes with major media companies. A prolonged negotiation breakdown with Disney triggered a widespread blackout of Disney-owned channels, including ESPN, ABC, Lifetime, FX, National Geographic, and the SEC Network, denying subscribers access. Many subscribers paying $82.99 per month missed sports, news, and entertainment programming as talks stalled and both sides stayed far apart on demands. YouTube TV issued a $20 credit to affected customers while the impasse continued into the weekend, intensifying subscriber frustration.
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