UPDATED with YouTube TV statement. YouTube TV has rejected Disney’s request to restore ABC for Election Day on Tuesday as a matter of “public interest” while the companies hammer out a carriage renewal. “We agree that the right priority here is to give customers what they want,” YouTube TV…

As YouTube TV‘s carriage talks leave many sports fans without access to their favorite college teams, ESPN is addressing the issue. The sports media company is making its pregame show College GameDay available for free on X and the ESPN mobile app immediately after it was one of several Disney…

Disney has been ‘unnecessarily aggressive and assertive” in carriage talks with YouTube TV, with an “antiquated view” of the economics of pay-TV. That’s the assessment of a YouTube executive involved in the negotiations, who agreed to share perspective from inside the tech giant with Deadline on…

YouTube TV and its parent, Google, want to “eliminate competition” and “devalue the very content that helped them build their service,” top Disney executives charged in a memo to employees Friday. Disney Entertainment co-chairs Dana Walden and Alan Bergman joined with ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro…

UPDATED with networks going dark: ABC, ESPN and other Disney networks have gone dark on YouTube TV due to a carriage dispute. In a departure from industry protocol, the signal went down shortly after 11:15 p.m. ET Thursday, which was before the official expiration of the companies’ current…

The long-anticipated collision of two media heavyweights over pay-TV distribution terms is at hand, with Disney on Thursday warning YouTube TV viewers that its networks could vanish next week. The companies’ existing distribution agreement expires at midnight ET next Thursday, October 30…

In a Truth Social post made yesterday, President Donald Trump pressed Google-owned YouTube TV to restore access to Univision, citing the Spanish-language broadcast network’s favorable coverage of him and Republicans as reason for doing so. “I hope Univision, a great and very popular Hispanic…

NBCUniversal and YouTube TV have announced a “long-term” distribution agreement, ending the threat of a blackout of NBCU networks in more than 10 million pay-TV homes. The companies had been at odds over the past week, with the programmer running ads and social media promotions calling attention…

NBCUniversal and YouTube TV have reached a short-term extension as they negotiate a new carriage deal. The companies’ current agreement was slated to expire at midnight ET on Tuesday. In a statement provided to Deadline, a YouTube TV spokesperson said, "We've reached a short-term extension to…

UPDATED with more details: Hispanic media giant TelevisaUnivision’s networks have gone dark on YouTube TV in a carriage dispute. In a statemen Tuesday night, TelevisaUnivision said YouTube TV is “stripping millions of Hispanic viewers of the Spanish-language news, sports, and entertainment they…

Having rapidly grown from startup to dominant pay-TV operator, YouTube TV now appears to be looking to level up again by incorporating partners’ streaming programming directly into its user interface. This drive to “ingest” content, as opposed to merely “integrating” third-party services as many…

NBCUniversal is warning YouTube TV subscribers that its programming could soon go dark on the pay-TV service due to the latest industry tangle over carriage fees and terms. The fight coincides with a separate standoff with TelevisaUnivision. Both companies’ current agreements with YouTube TV…