Though a full weekend of college football and NFL action, ESPN and ABC were not available to millions of YouTube TV subscribers.

The first slate of missed games may not be the last.

Via Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal , Google and Disney “ remain far apart ” in their positions. The major issue, as it always seems to be, is money. Google, per Karp, wants rates similar to what major cable providers like Charter/Spectrum and Comcast pay for the various Disney-owned channels. The fact that YouTube TV doesn’t have the same number of subscribers has prompted Disney to resist.

Meanwhile, ESPN continues to use its highly-compensated employees to spread the Gospel according to Mickey . The overt social-media shilling doesn’t seem to be resonating with the masses, who (correctly)

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