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Charlie Ergen gets ready to chuck quarterly earnings, Wall Street dismisses another perfect quarter by The Trade Desk, and YouTube and Disney keep our sports off the air like they just don't care
Also in our weekly review of all things technology, media and telecom, Sinclair's Chris Ripley tells investors to get ready for a broadcast TV world with essentially just two big station groups in it
Daniel Frankel & David Bloom
November 10, 2025
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Disney-vs.-YouTube TV: The biggest never-ending clash of (ambivalent) pay TV titans ever
As their carriage blackout enters its second full week, and is now poised to blot out another installment of the Monday Night Football sun, program licensing shaman for YouTube TV and Disney were said to be actively negotiating over the weekend to restore ABC, ESPN and around 20 other Disney channels to the nation’s fourth-largest pay-TV service.
Here’s what we know now about one of the oddest blackouts ever to hit the American pay TV business.
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