Disney settles dispute with YouTube TV
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Disney's carriage fight with Google's YouTube TV is beginning to create some issues for some of the company's most popular media properties. "NBC Nightly News" was able to claim victory over ABC's ‘World News Tonight" last week among viewers between 25 and 54 - the demographic most coveted by advertisers.
YouTube TV is the most popular and successful live-TV streaming service, far outpacing its rivals in the cable-as-internet game. But the platform has been waging lots of high-profile, ugly battles with various entertainment giants—and it may be losing once-loyal fans and subscribers as a result.
More than two weeks after having its channels go dark on the streaming TV service, Disney has resolved its big, expensive carriage fight with Google’s YouTube TV. Driven by the only pressure that actually seems to get anything done in American life—the fear that a percentage of the population might be asked to go without college and Monday Night Football for a desperate handful of days—the two giants have come to an agreement on how much YouTube will pay to offer Disney’s various channels to its ever-growing number of subscribers.
Johnston and Disney CEO Bob Iger will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. ET/5:30 a.m. PT to discuss the quarter (and year) in greater detail. Surely the ongoing bout with YouTube TV will come up - and probably more than once. We'll update this story with any new information.
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