The Disney – YouTube TV carriage impasse will hit Day 16 on Saturday, having become the longest blackout in Disney programming history.

That ignominious milestone, eclipsing a 13-day rift with DirecTV last fall, is once again threatening marquee sports. A huge Saturday slate of college football , which features national draws like Notre Dame and Alabama, will be followed two days later by the return of the ratings-magnet Dallas Cowboys to Monday Night Football .

Talks are continuing between the two companies, but there are few signs of an imminent breakthrough. Reports in The Athletic and other outlets ( including Deadline ) in recent days suggested a resolution was possibly near at hand. Surely, the thinking from informed sources went, the companies couldn’t extend the i

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