{"id":236343,"date":"2025-10-31T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236343\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:50:08","slug":"disney-pulls-channels-from-youtube-tv-over-fee-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236343\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney pulls channels from YouTube TV over fee dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If Disney channels remain suspended for an &#8220;extend period of time&#8221;, YouTube TV said it would offer subscribers a $20 credit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">YouTube and Disney-owned Hulu are among the biggest online TV platforms in the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their stand-off follows similarly contentious talks this year between YouTube and other media companies, which had also threatened to limit the shows available to YouTube TV subscribers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Google struck a deal at the last minute with Comcast-owned NBCUniversal earlier this month to keep shows like &#8220;Sunday Night Football&#8221; on YouTube TV. It has also reached agreements with Paramount and Fox in recent months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In separate statements, both Google and Disney said they were working toward a resolution to restore Disney content to YouTube TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Still, the companies remain divided on fees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With a $3 trillion market cap, Google is using its market dominance to eliminate competition and undercut the industry-standard terms we&#8217;ve successfully negotiated with every other distributor,&#8221; a Disney spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But YouTube said in a statement that Disney was proposing &#8220;costly economic terms&#8221; that would lead to higher prices for YouTube TV customers and limit their options for content, benefiting Disney&#8217;s own live TV offerings like Hulu+ Live TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Disney channels remain suspended for an &#8220;extend period of time&#8221;, YouTube TV said it would offer subscribers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-236343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}