YouTube TV and Disney spent more than two weeks attempting to work out a new deal, which meant more than two weeks of consumers with a YouTube TV subscription going without ESPN, ABC, FX, and many other Disney-owned channels. Now, just one day after a Disney exec boasted about having "leverage ," a deal has been struck to bring the programming options back to YouTube TV before the end of the 2025 TV schedule .

On November 13, Deadline reported comments from Disney CFO Hugh Johnston, which track with the existence of options for entertainment outside of YouTube TV, such as an ESPN Unlimited subscription and other streamers with access to sports coverage. At the time, Johnston said:

This is ultimately about your customers, and, right now, YouTube customers are suffering without

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