In recent years, carriage negotiations have led to temporary channel blackouts between Disney and services such as YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream, highlighting the high stakes of content licensing deals.
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Anthony Thompson,
USA Today,
30 June 2026
In reality, staff members for the three parties handle most, if not all, of the back of forth negotiations to get there.
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