A break from Disney channels on YouTube TV? Talking Tech podcast

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Hey, the listeners it's Brett Molina. Welcome back to Talking Tech. It feels like every week that I record the Talking Tech Podcast, we have another carriage dispute, this time involving YouTube TV and Disney. I could have sworn we were rid of this when we had cable and we got away from it to stream. Wasn't that the whole point of this supposed utopia, where it was like, you could get the channels you wanted. You didn't have to worry about the back and forth of, so and so is going to take your channels away. Let your cable subscriber know. Apparently that still exists right now.

YouTube TV warned subscribers on Monday, it might lose channels such as ABC, ESPN, FX, and a lot of the Disney properties, as parent company Google works out a renewed deal. YouTube TV sent an email out to subscribers. They said they're in negotiations with Disney on a new contract. The current deal is set to expire on December 17th. According to YouTube TV, the two sides haven't reached what they call a "equitable" deal yet.

Disney has told us USA Today in a statement that it's optimistic a deal could be reached. They talk about how they've had a very successful track record of negotiating deals with all different providers and so they feel like... They feel pretty good about a deal getting done on.

Obviously YouTube TV has been in the news recently because they recently reached a deal with streaming platform, Roku. As you recall, there was a lot of back and forth with YouTube and YouTube TV apps on Roku devices. Roku came out with statements alleging Google and big tech were trying to basically kind of bully the smaller companies like Roku. Google came out saying they wanted a similar deal as before. Of course, that led to YouTube TV being pulled from Roku devices. If you were a new buyer, if you already had YouTube TV, you were fine. You really probably didn't even notice it at all and they were about to pull the YouTube app earlier this month, but of course they reached a last minute deal and everything's fine.

It is very likely this will be the same thing, where Google and Disney reach a deal and then YouTube TV is not affected and none of us feel it. But this stuff's not fun. It was one of the reasons for me anyway, that I looked forward to getting away from cable and moving to more streaming, that and of course the price and not having to rent a cable box and all those other things.

But the fact that it's still here. It's like the more things change, the more they stay the same. I feel like that's where we're at right now. Yeah, we're so streaming. Yeah, we're on these different platforms that aren't cable but considering all these carriage deals, it sure feels like we really haven't left.

Listeners, let's hear from you. Do you have any comments, questions, or show ideas? Do you have any thoughts about all this back and forth between the providers and channels and stuff like that? Are you just tired of it? Has it ever made you reconsider what you subscribe to? Let me know about it on Twitter. I'm @BrettMolina23.

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