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The ongoing contractual dispute between Disney and Youtube TV continued beyond the weekend into Monday, meaning fans who use the television provider were unable to tune into ESPN’s Monday Night Football.
After millions of fans were shut out from watching the Monday Night Football game between the Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinals on YouTube TV, they now will miss out on watching Luka Doncic. Here’s the state of play (off the court): Google-owned YouTube TV is the nation’s fourth-largest TV distributor with 10 million subscribers.
Monday Night Football is nationally broadcast by ESPN and ABC under a rights deals that runs through the 2033 season. Since those channels are currently blacked out on YouTube TV, subscribers can’t stream MNF or any ESPN programming, including SportsCenter, NFL Live, or Monday Night Countdown.
The Disney YouTube TV blackout has DWTS fans wondering if they will be able to watch Tuesday night's live episode.
Disney+ appeared to encounter technical issues, impacting "Dancing With the Stars" viewers' ability to see real-time eliminations.
As we enter the second week of YouTube TV and Disney's ongoing fee war, ESPN, ABC, and other Disney-owned channels remain blacked out, and subscribers are not happy. The House of Mouse channels were taken away from YouTube TV just before Halloween on October 30 as Disney and Google struggled to come to an agreement.