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Disney disappointed Wall Street on Thursday with an earnings miss, but underlying figures show its streaming efforts are paying off.
Disney Goes Dark on YouTube TV. Why the House of Mouse and Google Are Feuding. Disney channels including ESPN and ABC disappeared from Google’s YouTube TV overnight, after the two sides failed to come to terms on a new streaming agreement.
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Disney’s blackout with YouTube TV sparks punishing $30M in weekly losses for Mouse House: analysts
In a Sunday note to clients, Morgan Stanley analyst Ben Swinburne projected that Disney’s ongoing dispute with Google-owned YouTube TV would shave $60 million off the company’s revenue if the outage lasts two weeks — or about $4.3 million a day, according to Business Insider.
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ESPN Gets Slammed For Posting Schedule Of College Football That YouTube TV Subscribers Will Miss
YouTube TV took to social media on October 30 to let customers know that they and the “House of Mouse” weren’t seeing eye to eye on an agreement, so they did not agree to terms that would have kept Disney and ESPN networks on the television streaming provider’s lineup:
A deal has been struck by Google and Disney that restore ABC, ESPN and all other Mouse House-owned channels to YouTube TV, and also give the vMVPD access to content that’s been exclusive to ESPN Unlimited and ESPN+,