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Dirk Libbey

'YouTube Customers Are Suffering.' Disney CFO Says Company Isn't Backing Down As Cable Outage Continues

Rich Eisen on SportsCenter.

Disney is a massive entertainment behemoth with so much content that it’s nearly impossible to avoid it. However, if you watch your television through YouTube TV, you have no choice but to avoid it, as the two companies have been involved in a stalemate that has kept all Disney-owned content off the platform for weeks. When this fight will end is anybody’s guess, but Disney seems willing to keep fighting.

Disney released its quarterly earnings for the fourth quarter of 2025, and while numbers overall were good, many still had questions about what’s happening between Disney and YouTube. Appearing on CNBC (via Deadline), Disney CFO Hugh Johnston confirmed that negotiations are ongoing, but indicated he wasn’t worried, saying he thought Disney had “some leverage” in the conversations. Johnston said…

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