{"id":292166,"date":"2025-11-15T00:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T00:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/292166\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T00:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T00:35:07","slug":"report-disney-youtube-tv-getting-very-close-to-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/292166\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Disney, YouTube TV getting &#8220;very close&#8221; to a deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disney CFO Hugh Johnston said in a quarterly meeting on Thursday that his company was \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/disney-cfo-on-youtube-tv-fight-were-ready-to-go-as-long-as-they-want-to\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ready to go as long as<\/a> [YouTube] wants to\u201d without a deal. <\/p>\n<p>Disney and Google are two weeks into a carriage dispute that prompted Disney to remove ESPN, ABC and related channels from the YouTube TV service.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Sherman of CNBC, though, delivered potential good news on Friday night about talks between the companies. Sherman reports that the sides are \u201cgetting very close\u201d to a deal, which \u201ccould happen soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Disney channels, including ABC and ESPN, went dark on YouTube TV on Oct. 30.<\/p>\n<p>There are no winners in the dispute, with 10 million YouTube TV subscribers the real losers in the corporate tug-of-war. They have missed two weeks of Monday Night Football and college football games unless they found games on another service.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube TV emailed customers earlier this week, informing them they could request a $20 credit for being without ESPN and the Disney channels for more than a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney CFO Hugh Johnston said in a quarterly meeting on Thursday that his company was \u201cready to go&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-292166","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\/292166","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=292166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}