LOS ANGELES – Google rejected a request from the Walt Disney Company to restore ABC to YouTube TV, the streaming platform Google owns, for a day on Nov. 4 to provide coverage of the day's elections.

The two sides are mired in contract negotiations over fees to stream Disney's channels – including ESPN and ABC – which were pulled from YouTube TV by Disney on Oct. 30.

Google has claimed that Disney is proposing "costly economic terms" in the dispute while Disney said in a statement previously provided to USA TODAY that Google is attempting to "undercut" deals it has made with other distributors.

The tech giant pointed to other news options on the streaming platform and on YouTube in its response to Disney denying the request, published on YouTube's official blog Nov. 3 . "I

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