They say you sometimes have to lose money to make money. Disney must be trying to make plenty of money, in time.

As noted by John Ourand of Puck , Morgan Stanley research analyst Ben Swinburne recently calculated that Disney is losing $30 million per week in its ongoing fight with Google over the placement of the corporation’s channels on YouTube TV.

Ourand also shared an interesting observation from Rich Greenfield of LightShed: Disney’s fourth-quarter earnings call happens on November 13.

“I can’t imagine Disney going into earnings on Thursday without a deal,” Greenfield told Ourand. “This is such a big part of ESPN’s revenues and profits. I just can’t fathom getting on the earnings call and being dark still.”

It’s still dark, and it has been for 11 days and counting. If th

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