As the Disney – YouTube TV carriage fight drags on, Disney Entertainment Co-Chairs Dana Walden and Alan Bergman joined with ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro to thank employees for “staying focused” during the disruption.

“Another sports-packed weekend” headlined by college football on Saturday is likely to be dark for YouTube TV’s 10 million subscribers, the execs wrote in an internal memo. (Read it in full below.)

The memo thanked employees for “staying focused on maintaining such a high bar throughout this difficult situation.” Given the “swirl of information about the impasse,” it said it wanted to recap the company’s bargaining position. “Rather than compete on a level playing field, Google’s YouTube TV has approached these negotiations as if it were the only player in the game,” the e

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