Name: YouTube TV, ESPN, and ABC Dispute: What's at Stake?
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Well, it's been two last weekends of ESPN for YouTube TV's 10 million subscribers. That is the platform is now issuing a $20 credit to those affected. However, a spokesperson for YouTube TV is saying that the sticking point in the negotiations is not the price of ESPN, it's ABC. So it's bring in front office sports reporter Eric Fisher. So Eric, why is ABC the sticking point here? Well, retrans of, uh, broadcast networks is always a complicated issue, but I think it's a little bit of a red herring where because Disney is such a diverse programmer like any of these deals, it's just one facet of many things we've talked about a whole bunch of things whether it be ESPN, the presence of Hulu in this situation, I think for you. YouTube to sort of call out one particular thing probably does a disservice to the overarching complex nature of this negotiation. Given the fact that ESPN, let's say in Monday Night Football's case, is able to simulcast that game on ABC, are they able to get more right or more fees and all of that stuff from places like YouTube TV because of that? Maybe a little bit, but it's important to note that there's been a bunch of simulcasting of major events, you know, not just football, but many ESPN events on ABC that's been a, a fundamental component of the entire Disney sports strategy for some time. Uh, again, these issues are getting heightened now because we're in the midst of a carriage dispute, but this is a multi. year Disney strategy that they've been pursuing. It seems like both sides are really dug in here just even sort of the comments that they're both sort of lobbying at each other right now. How long do you think the standoff could go? Is this going to be something that's going to be a prolonged sort of fight? Yeah, this is increasingly looking like something. This could be months and months and months. I've done a lot of these over the years. This one. Appears to be one of the more dug in ones that I can certainly recall and just not just the invective but how they just seem to be talking way past each other that it wouldn't necessarily surprise me if we go well past the holidays on this one. And is it because it's Google, a tech company, rather than say a charter or a DirecTV that's a traditional carriage provider? Is that what maybe also is changing the dynamic? A little bit that there there are other sort of non-traditional carriers that Disney has and other programmers have to deal with. Certainly one not as large as this, you know, again, as we've discussed that YouTube TV is now the number 4 carrier and only trail 3 very traditional ones in the market here. So, you know, I think those market dynamics all sort of feed into this.