Disney YouTube TV outage is ruining my life (I can’t watch ‘Jeopardy!’)

Google, the parent company of YouTube TV, has been locked in a showdown with Disney for nearly two weeks. The dispute began when the two companies failed to reach an agreement on a broadcast deal.

This means that for 12 days and counting, 10 million YouTube TV subscribers like me couldn’t access Disney-owned TV networks like ABC and ESPN, which have about 20 different channels.

Business Insider called on sports fans to “Big losers“In this confrontation, the New York Times and Engadget are the same Publication guides To help viewers listen to it Must watch college football games. But the press has ignored the suffering demographic trapped in silence while their peers initiate fubo trials to watch Monday Night Football.

This is me. I’m trapped. I can’t watch “Jeopardy!” Because it airs on ABC.

“risk!” It is a staple in my nightly routine. Finish the work. I’m making dinner. I watch “Jeopardy!” So imagine my surprise in early November when I turned on YouTube TV, to find that the latest episode had not been recorded. In fact, months of my “Jeopardy”! The recordings are gone! Horror! Who is the current “danger”! hero? Has Ken Jennings worn any cool ties lately? I don’t know. Because I can’t watch “Jeopardy!”

YouTube TV and Disney have been locked in this public dispute for weeks. On October 23, YouTube TV wrote: In a statement It is “working in good faith” to negotiate a deal with Disney, but the company is “proposing costly economic terms that would raise prices for YouTube TV customers (…) while taking advantage of Disney’s live TV products.” From Disney point of viewYouTube TV “refuses to pay fair rates to our channels.”

YouTube TV announced on Sunday that it will give subscribers a chance $20 credit – which must be manually restored – to compensate for Disney’s approximately two-week power outage. And while I thank the $3.46 trillion giant Google for its generosity, can I point out that in 2021, when a similar dispute led to Disney Channels being blacked out of YouTube TV due to… One dayDid subscribers get a $15 credit? (YouTube TV was also about $20 per month less expensive at the time.)

According to Morgan Stanley, Disney will lose out An estimated $60 million over two weeks – $4.3 million per day – by not making a deal with YouTube TV. But Disney could also generate new revenue streams through recently launched products ESPN Unlimited Subscription, which gives subscribers access to all ESPN content for $30 per month. However, we should note that ESPN Unlimited critically does not include “Jeopardy!”, America’s favorite game show®.

I, like many others, could use this opportunity to explore other streaming channels, perhaps those owned by Disney — however, I may or may not share my YouTube TV account with five other people, which locks me into a sweet deal. (Please, YouTube TV, don’t pull Netflix on me.)

When will this national nightmare end? When will I again be able to criticize contestants’ mathematically illogical double daily bets? When will I be reminded that I know nothing about opera? The ball is in your court, Mr. Mouse.