Would this make the local affiliate’s retransmission consistent agreement with YTTV null and void?
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YouTube TV may lose Disney, ESPN channels
- Thread starter CTListener
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There is no such agreement. The retrans/must carry rules apply only to traditional cable/satellite providers. Streamers like YTTV, Fubo, Sling and Hulu make national carriage deals directly with the networks that cover all of their affiliates.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I guess my earlier explanation didn't make it clear. I don't know why I bother anymore.
You definitely made it clear that Disney was negotiating for all its affiliates, no matter the ownership.
Maybe my response was a little off. Sinclair has no negotiating power for network affiliates (WEAR Pensacola in my case) with internet streaming providers? None of the (well known) cable/satellite rules apply? Not even for local content?
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Answering all three questions, in order: No, they do not. Not for streaming. No, the authority for stream negotiations by the network covers the station as a whole.
See also my response at #22
I see that ESPN simulcast its College Gameday show on X. It would have been nice for the Worldwide Leader to do a favor for those of us who are already paying it as well as YouTube by simulcasting its ESPN and ESPN2, ABC games on ESPN+, which would allow subscribers to the ESPN Select service to access the games. But apparently no such favor is forthcoming. Fortunately, most SEC and ACC games wind up being pirated and streamed on YouTube (Last night's NC-Syracuse game, for example), so I guess that will be YouTube TV subscribers' only option other than risking malware on the European-based illegal streamers.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I am certain you realize that's exactly the way they want it during a retrans dispute.
"Would have been nice" doesn't apply when a blackout like this occurs.
YouTube TV rejects offer to restore ABC for Election Night
The streaming cable alternative said there are plenty of other sources for Election Night information.
thedesk.net
Here is the current status on the Disney/YoutubeTV dispute. On one hand this is about Disney getting viewers over to their TV bundles on the other hand we look at Carriage fees as the issue here.
YouTube TV rejects offer to restore ABC for Election Night
The streaming cable alternative said there are plenty of other sources for Election Night information.
thedesk.net
Here is the current status on the Disney/YoutubeTV dispute. On one hand this is about Disney getting viewers over to their TV bundles on the other hand we look at Carriage fees as the issue here.
What gets me, is that the average viewer (not the usual reader/poster here who understands how these work) has bigshots all over social media who see the ads or don't understand how retrans works....and they post things like "Take away my ABC/ESPN? Bye Bye forever, YouTube TV." The same people who say "Southwest Airlines is now charging for bags like everyone else? You'll never catch ME flying their airline again." You know as well as I do that if Southwest is still $50 less than any other airline, you'll quietly book them and fly them. If YouTube TV has the best selection of channels or the best value for the channels that you want, you'll keep them despite this setback (because the rest of us know that these parties will eventually come to a deal, probably sooner than later and ABC/ESPN/Disney will return their channels to your service...just like eventually the government will end the shutdown, probably sooner than later (we hope). You may leave YouTube TV over this and join Sling or DirecTV or cable, and then in a couple of weeks when Disney comes back, and you miss the other channels on YouTube TV, you'll come crawling back (or maybe you'll hang onto the new service until THEY start having issues and drop some of their channels).
And their back.
variety.com
YouTube TV and Disney Reach Deal Ending Two-Week Blackout of ESPN, ABC
The YouTube TV blackout of ESPN, ABC and other Disney networks is over: Disney and Google reached a renewed carriage deal, which will bring ESPN Unlimited to YouTube TV by the end of 2026.
variety.com
WVNY Burlington, VT, owned by Mission Broadcasting, a minor player, but with a shared services agreement with Nexstar's WFFF, is also not back. No placeholder, no nothing, The channel just does not appear in the guide. Friction between Disney and some of the ABC affiliates it does not own outright?
As of 10 PM MST, ABC15 is back.
As is WVNY. Normal service is restored.
I still got my $20 rebate!