As YouTube TV‘s carriage talks leave many sports fans without access to their favorite college teams, ESPN is addressing the issue.
The sports media company is making its pregame show College GameDay available for free on X and the ESPN mobile app immediately after it was one of several Disney networks to go dark on the platform ahead of the company’s contract expiration.
Available via X’s live video function, with access including replays and bonus content, while the ESPN app offers push notifications and highlight clips, according to Cord Cutters.
With Disney’s networks going dark Thursday on YouTube TV, Disney Entertainment co-chairs Dana Walden and Alan Bergman joined ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro in expressing that YouTube TV and parent company Google are “not interested in achieving a fair deal with us,” in a memo to employees.
“Instead, they want to use their power and extraordinary resources to eliminate competition and devalue the very content that helped them build their service,” they added.
Meanwhile, a YouTube executive has told Deadline that Disney has been “unnecessarily aggressive and assertive” in the talks, but someone at Disney said that YouTube TV is “intentionally misrepresenting the situation.”
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