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Disney and Google said they reached a deal to restore ESPN, ABC and other channels to YouTube TV, two days after a contract dispute knocked them off the streamer, Variety reports. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Google said the price for YouTube TV would remain $64.99/month with the Disney renewal but that it would still grant the $15 credit to users that it promised when the networks went dark Friday night after the companies had failed to reach a new deal. “We have already… Source link

Disney’s suite of networks — including ABC and ESPN — have gone dark on YouTube TV after the media conglomerate and Google failed to forge a new deal before the midnight ET deadline Friday, according to Variety. It’s the first major blackout for YouTube TV over a carriage-fee dispute in its nearly five-year history (although YouTube TV dropped 19 Fox regional sports networks owned by Sinclair last year). Google said it will reduce YouTube TV’s monthly price by $15 — from… Source link

On the latest Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Eben Novy-Williams chat with Jo Lambert, president and general manager of consumer at Yahoo, about the company’s reach, its sports content business, and its expansion into daily fantasy and sports betting. For years, Yahoo has been a primarily ad-supported business. Lambert explains how the company, now majority owned by Apollo Global Management, is starting to diversify its revenue streams, including the creation of… Source link