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YouTube TV viewers can no longer see Disney channels including ABC and ESPN after the two sides failed to agree on a new content distribution deal. Other channels that vanished from Google’s pay TV platform include the Disney Channel, FX and Nat Geo.
The Disney-YouTube TV confrontation highlights the dramatic changes in media consolidation, the diminishment of local media, and the continuing rise of big tech.
Sports products & strategy vice president Brian Marshall during ESPN's 2025 Direct to Consumer Press Event. (Photo by Phil Ellsworth / ESPN Images) Disney is warning YouTube TV subscribers that they may lose access to the parent company’s channels as ...