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YouTube TV is offering subscribers a $20 credit as they wait to regain access to channels including ABC and ESPN
YouTube TV and Disney remain in a contract stalemate, leaving millions of customers without access to ESPN/ABC channels.
On Sunday, YouTube TV informed its customers that it will issue a $20 credit due to its ongoing dispute with Disney, which has prevented ESPN's live sports coverage from being available on the platform since Oct. 31.
On the one hand, $20—which Google previously promised users if a previously unnamed amount of time, now revealed to be “about a week and change” had passed—isn’t that much, given that a monthly YouTube TV subscription currently runs users $82.
Mississippi State football fans planning to watch the Bulldogs this weekend via YouTube TV may have to make alternate plans.
The release of the memo to ESPN employees is the latest twist in the protracted stand-off between the distributor and content company.
According to a new survey from Drive Research (via Variety ), YouTube TV subscribers aren't happy. In response to the standoff, 24% of respondents said they had already cancelled their subscription or were planning to do so. That's according to around 1,100 consumers who responded to the survey.