As Monday Night Football gets set for a hotly anticipated matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers, ABC, ESPN and other Disney networks remain dark on YouTube TV due to a carriage dispute .

It has been more than a week since the standoff began between Disney and YouTube TV . The latter has grown into a dominant force in pay-TV , racking up 10 million subscribers just eight years after its launch. The scale and stature of the combatants have made the blackout a daily conversation topic playing out against the backdrop of a similarly intractable U.S. government shutdown.

Neither Disney nor YouTube TV has commented publicly since Friday . After another lost Saturday of college football there is a growing industry speculation (or maybe “hope” is a better

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