📡 YouTube TV and ESPN/ABC are officially on a break... [Update: Deal reached, all is good again]

[MunchyOs]

Haven't these motherfuckers had a year to get this ironed out?

 

[MunchyOs]

Connecting some dots here tells me this may not fall in Google’s lap. Who is benefiting the most from the ABC/ESPN going dark on YouTube? I’d (and others out there) would say Hulu is the winner. They’ve been lagging and this will get them a resurgence of subscribers. Who owns Hulu?

Disney.

So maybe, Google and YouTube are the ones taking it in the rear.

Oh hell! I didn't even think of that. Would think that would be a conflict of interest. Disney owning a competing service and having their networks on all these other services too. Makes my head spin!

 

[rick4bama]

All I know is that these BOZO have a week to settle the agreement!

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Oh hell! I didn't even think of that. Would think that would be a conflict of interest. Disney owning a competing service and having their networks on all these other services too. Makes my head spin!

Well, when the live game feeds are being pirated on YouTube all weekend and ESPN and Disney demand they get taken down, maybe Google will give them the old, “we’ll get to when we get to it…”

 

[rick4bama]

I pay You Tube right now $82.99, if I chance over to Hulu+ it will go up by $7.00. So that would be $89.99.

Something you could try is just looking up Livestreams on YouTube itself. Someone is going to show these games.

Watching the Memphis game right now on Live streams. But still I will give YTTV till Wednesday if it still not back! I will go to Hulu+.

 

[mando]

Connecting some dots here tells me this may not fall in Google’s lap. Who is benefiting the most from the ABC/ESPN going dark on YouTube? I’d (and others out there) would say Hulu is the winner. They’ve been lagging and this will get them a resurgence of subscribers. Who owns Hulu?

Disney.

So maybe, Google and YouTube are the ones taking it in the rear.

I assumed it was a business move by Disney to get people to take the ESPN pay service or some service that puts more money in Disneys pocket.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I assumed it was a business move by Disney to get people to take the ESPN pay service or some service that puts more money in Disneys pocket.

Maybe so. That just seemed like the most logical theory since Hulu is going to get a bump. I have a hard time keeping up with all of these extra add on services these days.

 

[mando]

Haven't these motherfuckers had a year to get this ironed out?

This is all about negotiating leverage or a Disney move to put more money in their pocket!!!!

 

[TerryP]

FWIW, if you guys are sitting there trying to figure out what to do today, you can grab a single day pass with Sling for around six bucks.

It dawns on me I can't remember one of these carriage disputes happening outside of the football season.

 

[MunchyOs]

FWIW, if you guys are sitting there trying to figure out what to do today, you can grab a single day pass with Sling for around six bucks.

It dawns on me I can't remember one of these carriage disputes happening outside of the football season.

Exactly. Funny how there disputes always happen right in the heart of football season. Never during like say in that dead period after the Final Four. It's always in the fall

 

[It Takes Eleven]

FWIW, if you guys are sitting there trying to figure out what to do today, you can grab a single day pass with Sling for around six bucks.

It dawns on me I can't remember one of these carriage disputes happening outside of the football season.

Yeah, those would pass without much fanfare from football fans. Kind of like the gov't shutdown and not being on assistance.

 

[MunchyOs]

Well guys, if it's any consolation at all, the joke is on the fighting couple. Bama is on a bye, so that alone makes it at least a little more tolerable for us. And the SEC slate this week is not very strong. Texas is already beating the dog shit out of Vandy and I suspect the Georgia will do the same to and interim coach led Florida and likewise with the viles and the land thieves game. So....are we REALLY missing anything this weekend? Now....they don't get the shit worked out next week...well different story. But for now... I think the joke is on them

 

[rick4bama]

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Well guys, if it's any consolation at all, the joke is on the fighting couple. Bama is on a bye, so that alone makes it at least a little more tolerable for us. And the SEC slate this week is not very strong. Texas is already beating the dog shit out of Vandy and I suspect the Georgia will do the same to and interim coach led Florida and likewise with the viles and the land thieves game. So....are we REALLY missing anything this weekend? Now....they don't get the shit worked out next week...well different story. But for now... I think the joke is on them

Just the great miami hurricanes got beat by smu
Clemson by duke

Msy be bad week for ACC

 

[MunchyOs]

Just the great miami hurricanes got beat by smu
Clemson by duke

Msy be bad week for ACC

I spoke too soon. Now, naturally, Georgia Florida has all the makings of a classic, and I come to find out that Vanderbilt nearly had what would have been the biggest comeback in their entire history against Texas, had they won. Of course, this will end up being the greatest weekend in sports history. I swear I think these fucking games are rigged sometimes

 

[MunchyOs]

How the hell is piss poor Florida beating Georgia?

 

[Krimson]

How the hell is piss poor Florida beating Georgia?

Very little consistency this year

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

How the hell is piss poor Florida beating Georgia?

Thay have a lot of really good players and they are not a bad team. Also, this is the new SEC. For the most part, easy wins are a thing of the past. Would serve some well to reprogram themselves to that reality, as it will (and has) impact Bama too. Otherwise one will simply reside in a land of frustration every fall Saturday.

 

[We All Bleed Crimson]

I cancelled my youtube TV subscription.
Added ESPN unlimited for 29.99/mo.

 

[rick4bama]

I cancelled my youtube TV subscription.
Added ESPN unlimited for 29.99/mo.

I did too, I got the HULU, and Disney+ which I have both separate. With ESPN altogether now.