YouTube TV has undergone public content rights battles with more than half of the major media companies, but the Disney spat looms large.
YouTube TV’s contract negotiations with Disney are dragging on into a multi-week affair, and subscribers are already missing key programming events as a result. ESPN’s Monday Night Football wasn’t broadcasted on the live streaming service, and neither was ABC’s Election Day coverage. In all, 21 Disney channels are currently offline, impacting YouTube TV’s more than 10 million subscribers.
This isn’t the first time YouTube TV has entered public negotiations with media companies over broadcast rights. It previously sparred with NBCUniversal, Fox, and Paramount this year. Considering that six media companies control over 50 channels on YouTube TV, we asked our readers which collection of channels they couldn’t live without. Here’s how they answered it.What are the YouTube TV channels you can’t live without?
Over the past week, readers voted for their must-have YouTube TV channel collections, and more respondents said they couldn’t live without Disney channels than all the other choices combined.
