YouTube TV and its parent, Google, want to “eliminate competition” and “devalue the very content that helped them build their service,” top Disney executives charged in a memo to employees Friday.

Disney Entertainment Co-Chairs Dana Walden and Alan Bergman joined with ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro in giving workers an update on the blackout, which doesn’t appear likely to be resolved anytime soon. (Read it in full below.)

ABC, ESPN and other Disney networks went dark shortly after 11 p.m. ET on Thursday, before the official midnight expiration of the companies’ distribution contract. YouTube TV, which launched in 2017, has grown into the No. 3 pay-TV operator in the U.S., with about 10 million subscribers. In a string of bare-knuckled carriage battles this year, it has sought to levera

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