{"id":269800,"date":"2025-11-04T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/269800\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:00:08","slug":"youtube-tv-denies-disney-bid-to-restore-abc-for-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/269800\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube TV Denies Disney Bid to Restore ABC for Election Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">YouTube TV rejected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/DIS:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Walt Disney Co.<\/a>\u2019s request to restore its ABC network to the online TV service during Election Day as a fight over distribution fees drags on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Adding back the channel for one day might confuse subscribers, YouTube said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.youtube\/news-and-events\/our-response-to-disneys-request-to-restore-abc\/\" title=\"Link to post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">blog post<\/a>. Instead, YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.youtube\/news-and-events\/our-response-to-disneys-request-to-restore-abc\/\" title=\"Link to blog post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">asked <\/a>Disney to let it restore the company\u2019s ABC and ESPN channels while the two continue to negotiate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YouTube TV rejected Walt Disney Co.\u2019s request to restore its ABC network to the online TV service during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[13564,1017,2356,1062,88,399,1997,2005,27959,92,5148,106274,9280],"class_list":{"0":"post-269800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-new-jersey","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-pursuits","17":"tag-tv","18":"tag-virginia","19":"tag-walt-disney-co-the","20":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}