Disney’s channels have been removed from YouTube’s pay-TV platform after the two media giants failed to reach a new carriage agreement before Thursday’s midnight deadline passed.

[w7voa@journa.host]

Disney’s channels have been removed from YouTube’s pay-TV platform after the two media giants failed to reach a new carriage agreement before Thursday’s midnight deadline passed. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/media/disney-youtube-deal-biz-hnk

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@w7voa I said this when streaming consolidation started: Every single media house is very efficiently shrinking their audience, compared to the "broadcast + theaters" model they hate so much.

Thad model had a functional addressable audience of "everyone" - no vendor lock-in platform is going to match that.

Having lost the YT audience, Disney will now have to raise the prices on their platform for either viewers, 3rd parties (which I assume they have; never had Disney+, never will) or both.