The Disney-YouTube TV confrontation highlights the dramatic changes in media consolidation, the diminishment of local media, and the continuing rise of big tech.

Chris Ripley, CEO of TV station giant Sinclair, ripped Disney and YouTube TV’s ongoing carriage fight for depriving audiences of local programming and running afoul of regulatory rules. Speaking to Wall Street analysts during the company’s third-quarter earnings call,

YouTube TV is offering subscribers a rebate as its fight with Disney continues. Here's everything you need to know.

Disney can go direct to viewers, and might love the opportunity to do so, but it would also lose the considerable scale benefits that it gets from partnering with YouTube TV, which brings almost as many customers as mainstays Comcast and Charter and which pays the entertainment giant about $10 per customer,

Google claims that Disney is trying to "force deal terms that would raise prices on our customers," indicating that Disney's asking price for the content is too high. Disney asserts that YouTube TV and Google are "not interested in achieving a fair deal," suggesting that Google is trying to leverage its market position to devalue Disney's content.

Disney is likely feeling a financial pinch from the ongoing blackout of ESPN, ABC and other networks on Google’s YouTube TV. Disney is losing an estimated $30 million per week from its networks being pulled off YouTube TV,

Disney is losing $30M per week as carriage talks with YouTube TV leave millions without ESPN live sports and primetime programming.

YouTube TV and Disney are now solidly into week two of failing to work out a new coverage deal, with the consequence that the latter’s channel properties have gone dark on the f