Disney Channels Including ABC, ESPN Go Dark on YouTube TV After Google Deal Lapses

variety.com:

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDisney’s suite of 18 networks — including ABC and ESPN — have gone dark on YouTube TV after the media conglomerate and Google failed to come to terms on a new deal before the midnight ET deadline.It’s the first contract-related blackout for YouTube TV in its nearly five-year history.

Google said it will reduce YouTube TV’s monthly price by $15 — from $64.99 to $49.99  — now that the Disney nets have gone dark.Disney’s previous pact with Google’s YouTube TV for ABC-owned TV stations, ESPN networks, Disney channels, Freeform, the FX networks and the National Geographic channels had been set to expire Friday (Dec.