It’s certainly been a spooky week for the Walt Disney Co. and Google. The two corporations are in the midst of a carriage dispute that has resulted in a blackout of Disney’s networks on Google-owned YouTube TV, leaving viewers unable to access popular channels including ESPN and ABC.

Disney began notifying viewers on October 23 about the dispute and warning that its networks could be removed from the pay-TV streaming platform.

All of that came to a head in the last 48 hours as the two parties failed to come to an agreement on a new deal, and YouTube TV began removing Disney’s networks about 30 minutes before the previous carriage deal expired at midnight Eastern time.

One area of contention between the two seems to be around pricing, with Disney asking for rate hikes that Google isn’t a

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