are negotiating today<\/a>.<\/p>\nAs we\u2019ve said from the get go, f the two parties truly wanted to do a deal, they would get one done. Go in a room, lock the door, and stay there until an agreement is reached. Use a third-party mediator, if need be.<\/p>\n
They need to prioritize it. Both parties. They haven\u2019t. And the customers have gotten screwed.<\/p>\n
The situation hasn\u2019t been good for the companies involved, either. ESPN has handled the situation poorly from a P.R. perspective, with a variety of they-think-we\u2019re-all-stupid tactics that have largely backfired.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, YouTube TV will provide customers with a $20 credit if no deal is reached. Even if a deal is done, hopefully there will be a credit for the eight days (so far) that have entailed YouTube TV not delivering on the channels for which it has charged.<\/p>\n
For now, we can at least hope that, by Monday night, the Eagles-Packers game will be available on ESPN and ABC. And then, by Wednesday afternoon, ESPN can avoid having to come up with a clunky P.R. spin aimed at making depressed viewership numbers look better than they were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As football fans who have paid for the YouTube TV service continue to not be able to watch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-280073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280073","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=280073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}