Discussions on Reddit indicate that many YouTube TV users are switching to or considering a move to DirecTV following the Disney debacle.

YouTube TV has lost Disney and ESPN after the two sides failed to strike a deal. Here are three streaming services that still offer everything Disney.

Unfortunately, we are headed into another sports-packed weekend without a deal in place,” Disney executives wrote in a memo on Friday.

The disagreement causing the ESPN and ABC outage stems from the "carriage fee" that YouTube TV pays Disney to broadcast its channels. Disney has faced similar negotiating standoffs with other broadcasters in recent years, including a 2021 outage on YouTubeTV that was resolved in two days.

During perhaps one of the best seasons for watching sports on television, ESPN channels were removed from the YouTube TV streaming platform. However, there are way subscribers can watch football and more sports this weekend with some help from other streaming services.

Disney has had blackout disruptions on major providers in each of last two years, having an 11-day dispute with Charter in 2023 and a 13-day battle with DirecTV in 2024. There are a few other live TV streaming services offering great deals and channels that YouTube TV customers no longer have access to.

ESPN and other Disney channels were restored to DirecTV homes on Saturday when the two media companies reached an agreement in principle on a new carriage deal. The ESPN networks, among other channels, had gone dark in DirecTV homes on Sept. 1, when the ...