ESPN, YouTube and college football
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ESPN used a number of its top talent like Stephen A. Smith, Mike Greenberg and Kirk Herbstreit to call for fans to ask YouTube TV to keep the networks. The network was hit with fan backlash after its latest message.
If you're a YouTube TV subscriber, you may have noticed that ABC, ESPN and other Disney-owned channels have gone dark on the platform today. The Walt Disney Co. has pulled its channels from YouTube TV as of midnight on Oct. 30 after the two companies failed to reach new terms on their latest carriage agreement.
YouTube TV and Disney are negotiating a renewed distribution agreement, and if a deal—or an extension of talks—isn’t agreed to by Friday, ESPN and ABC would likely go dark on the platform. Alternatively,
YouTube TV subscribers could lose access to ESPN and ABC at midnight on Thursday. Sling TV offers SEC fans relief.
Here's who will have the TV call of Saturday's game in Death Valley when Dabo Swinney's Clemson Tigers host Darian Mensah and Duke.