News Summary

• YouTube TV has been locked out from Disney channels for at least a week.
• The Google-owned streamer alone has been caught up in four other carriage fights this year.
• The stakes were especially high for YouTube thanks to NBC’s portfolio of live sports (Sunday Night Football, NBA Premier League) NBCUniversal accused YouTube TV of undercutting its preferred programming rates, while the Google- owned platform complained it was unfair to demand that payments exceed the cost of a Peacock.“We are headed into another sports-packed weekend without a deal in place,” the chairs of ESPN and Disney Entertainment wrote.