New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. As of Oct. 31, YouTube TV subscribers have lost access to all Disney-owned channels, including ABC, ESPN, FX, Disney Channel, and more. Disney pulled its channels from the live TV … Read more
An important milestone has passed in the Cold War between Disney and DirecTV. As Jets vs. 49ers began on “Monday Night Football” on ESPN and ABC, the networks’ parent company, Disney, has still not come to a carriage agreement with DirecTV. The dispute includes the ESPN family of networks, FX and Disney’s owned-and-operated ABC affiliates. … Read more
College football fans with DirectTV got an unwanted surprise on Sunday when Disney-owned channels, including ESPN, went dark just before the start of LSU’s game against USC. The move comes after a distribution deal that was being negotiated by the two sides fell apart and ended up with DirectTV customers being left in the lurch … Read more
DirecTV’s top content executive Rob Thun joins the pod as co-host this week to discuss the problems regional sports networks are having today, and talk about how the satellite operator plans to handle local sports rights in the future. Thun tells co-host John Ourand how some of the local broadcast deals some teams have made … Read more