YoutubeTV drops Disney channels

[Kevin M.]

Effective at midnight, ABC and ESPN are no longer available. Since Jeopardy airs on ABC here in LA, no point keeping YTTV if they don’t restore it. My mother in law can watch next day reruns commercial free on Peacock. 

Kevin M. (RPCV)

[Bob F]

Sinclair's CEO Chris Ripley, on the company's latest earnings call (their Q3 revenue declined 16%, and their net income has flipped to a loss), "said the company is lobbying for changes so that local TV station owners have control over such pay-TV distribution deals."

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/sinclair-q3-2025-earnings-abc-stations-jimmy-kimmel-boycott-1236570266/ (link)
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Kevin M, Oct 30th:

[Tom Wolper]

That Variety article was a mess. I’m having a hard time figuring out what a Disney Google spat has to do with local stations.

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[Jim Ellwanger]

YouTubeTV’s carriage rights for local stations are set up differently than they are on cable systems. If Disney were feuding with Comcast, for example, then only ABC’s owned-and-operated affiliates would be removed from Comcast systems — Sinclair’s ABC affiliates would still be available.

However, with this Disney-Google dispute, ALL ABC affiliates are currently off YouTubeTV, including the ones Sinclair owns.

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[Adam Bowie]

I see that another fallout of this YouTube/Disney dispute is that YouTube is no longer part of the Disney owned "Movies Everywhere" - the service that lets you watch a movie you bought on Apple over on the YouTube app. That said, I'm not sure that Movies Everywhere ever extended beyond the US. Certainly, it never launched in the UK and consequently, I have films and series scattered across YouTube/Google, Amazon and Apple, each only available within its own app. (To be honest, I still prefer physical media for that reason).

Another casualty of the dispute seems to be that you can no longer buy or rent Disney titles on apps like YouTube. Certainly for me, all Disney's titles have disappeared.  Obviously, there are plenty of other places you can get the titles, but it shows how far the relationship has fallen apart.

Adam

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