Let’s set the scene: Another week has gone by. You’re a YouTube TV subscriber and you have a favorite show on ABC you’d like to tune in for but its unavailable.

In fact, to your surprise, Disney ’s entire lineup of channels is unavailable. This annoys you even more because you’d have to go yet another week missing out on a program you were excited to watch and there’s no sign of when the channels would return.

That’s because the Disney-owned streaming channels, including ESPN, ABC, the ACC Network and the SEC Networks, were removed from YouTube TV on Oct. 31, and haven’t been restored yet.

It’s all due to a disagreement that caused the ABC and ESPN outage stemming from the “carriage fee” YouTube pays Disney to broadcast its channels.

This follows a similar negotiating standoff the

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