An October shock hit some 10 million tv watchers final Thursday.
On Oct. 30, YouTube TV subscribers misplaced entry to all Walt Disney Firm channels — together with ABC and ESPN, plus the conference-specific ACC and SEC Networks. Disney and Google (YouTube’s dad or mum firm) failed to achieve an up to date settlement on carriage. The conglomerates’ beef is now spilling into soccer and basketball seasons.
YouTube TV customers have two foremost choices to bypass the blackout. They will change their pay TV supplier, or add a direct-to-consumer streaming account.
Which carriers have the Disney networks?
YouTube TV is boxed out, however most of its opponents nonetheless provide the Disney-owned channels. Of essential significance proper now: ABC is free over the air, so it may be accessed with a broadcast antenna (the old-school “rabbit ears”). ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and the ACC/SEC Networks should not accessible over the air, although.
Listed below are the pay TV leaders with these channels:
Fubo (Stream Free Now)
Cox
DirecTV
Dish
Hulu + Reside TV
Optimum
Sling
Spectrum
Verizon Fios
Xfinity
In mild of the blackout, YouTube TV customers would possibly get some reduction on their month-to-month invoice. “It’s our purpose to revive Disney content material to YouTube TV, but when we are able to’t attain an settlement and their content material is unavailable for an prolonged time period, we’ll provide our subscribers a $20 credit score,” Google says in its assist heart.
How does the direct-to-consumer subscription work?
If switching suppliers is simply too arduous, YouTube TV loyalists can add the suite of Disney sports activities packages by an ESPN Limitless plan. ESPN has a brand new cord-cutting subscription service (launched Aug. 21) that prices $29.99 per 30 days or $299.99 yearly. ESPN Limitless features a dozen totally different networks:
ESPN, the primary channel
ABC, particularly any ESPN sports activities manufacturing airing on the flagship broadcaster
ESPN2, the secondary channel
ESPN3, digital-only video games
ESPN+, digital-only video games
ESPNU for school sports activities
ESPNEWS for simulcasts, reruns and occasion overflow
ESPN Deportes for Spanish-language programming
SEC Community for the Southeastern Convention
SEC Community+, digital-only
ACC Community for the Atlantic Coast Convention
ACCNX, digital-only
What sports activities are on the Disney networks this week?
Listed below are the upcoming headliners throughout ABC, ESPN and the convention networks for the week of Nov. 3. All occasions ET:
NFL
Monday: Arizona Cardinals at Dallas Cowboys on ABC and ESPN, 8:15 p.m.
Faculty Soccer
Tuesday: Miami (OH) at Ohio on ESPN2, 7 p.m.Wednesday: Northern Illinois at Toledo on ESPN2, 7 p.m.Thursday: UTSA at South Florida on ESPN, 7:30 p.m.Thursday: Georgia Southern at Appalachian State on ESPN2, 7:30 p.m.Friday: Tulane at Memphis on ESPN, 9 p.m.
Saturday: BYU at Texas Tech on ABC, noonSaturday: Georgia at Mississippi State on ESPN, noonSaturday: James Madison at Marshall on ESPN2, noonSaturday: SMU at Boston Faculty on ACC Community, midday
Saturday: Texas A&M at Missouri on ABC, 3:30 p.m.Saturday: Syracuse at Miami on ESPN, 3:30 p.m.Saturday: Kansas at Arizona on ESPN2, 3:30 p.m.Saturday: Auburn at Vanderbilt on SEC Community, 4 p.m.
Saturday: Wake Forest at Virginia on ESPN, 7 p.m.Saturday: California at Louisville on ESPN2, 7 p.m.Saturday: Florida State at Clemson on ACC Community, 7 p.m.Saturday: LSU at Alabama on ABC, 7:30 p.m.Saturday: Florida at Kentucky on SEC Community, 7:30 p.m.
NBA
Wednesday: Minnesota Timberwolves at New York Knicks on ESPN, 7:30 p.m.Wednesday: San Antonio Spurs at Los Angeles Lakers on ESPN, 10 p.m.Saturday: Phoenix Suns at LA Clippers on ESPN, 10:30 p.m.
Males’s Faculty Basketball
Tuesday: Texas vs. Duke on ESPN, 8:45 p.m.Friday: Kansas at North Carolina on ESPN, 7 p.m.Saturday: Oklahoma at Gonzaga on ESPN2, 10:30 p.m.Sunday: Indiana vs. Marquette on ESPN, 1 p.m.Sunday: Texas A&M at Oklahoma State on ESPN2, 2 p.m.Sunday: Washington at Baylor on ESPN, 8:30 p.m.
Girls’s Faculty Basketball
Tuesday: Tennessee vs. NC State on ESPN2, 4 p.m.Tuesday: Louisville vs. UConn on ESPN, 5:30 p.m.Sunday: USC at NC State on ESPN, 3 p.m.
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