Disney 's top executives sent a company-wide memo after Google's YouTube TV removed ESPN, ABC and other Disney networks from its service this week. In the memo, Disney Entertainment co-chairs Dana Walden and Alan Bergman and ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro said that Google-owned YouTube TV is responsible for the blackout and is “not interested in achieving a fair deal with us. ” The executives asserted that YouTube TV pulled the channels “prior to the midnight ET expiration of the previous carriage deal — with no advance notice to their subscribers, or to us.” The executives also confirmed that “all previously recorded shows and events from their subscribers’ libraries,” were also deleted from YouTube TV. According to a report by Variety, Disney executives criticised the removal in the me

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