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Disney's Fight With YouTube TV Blunts Ratings Edge at ABC News
Disney's carriage fight with Google's YouTube TV is beginning to create some issues for some of the company's most popular media properties. "NBC Nightly News" was able to claim victory over ABC's ‘World News Tonight" last week among viewers between 25 and 54 - the demographic most coveted by advertisers.

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Disney shares plunge 9% as ABC’s ‘World News Tonight’ ratings tank amid YouTube TV dispute
Disney's ESPN, ABC set to return on YouTube TV after weeks of disruption
Disney and YouTube TV reach deal ending weeks of disruption
Google's YouTube and Walt Disney said on Friday they had reached an agreement to restore Disney-owned networks to YouTube TV, after a fee dispute left millions of subscribers without access to U.S. El...

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Disney and YouTube TV End Blackout
Disney Reaches New Deal With YouTube TV, Ending Two-Week Blackout
After Disney Exec Claimed ‘Leverage’ In Dispute With YouTube TV, A New Deal Is Finally Bringing ESPN And More Back To Subscribers
Now, just one day after a Disney exec boasted about having "leverage ," a deal has been struck to bring the programming options back to YouTube TV before the end of the 2025 TV schedule.

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Disney content will return to YouTube TV under a new deal
Disney and YouTube TV Have a Deal: ESPN and ABC Return to Streaming Service After Two Week Blackout
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ABC's David Muir humiliated as rival scores huge win against him

ABC World News Tonight saw its lowest ratings in a key demographic in over a year due to a network standoff with YouTube TV, catapulting NBC Nightly News to the top spot
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David Muir halts ABC's World News Tonight over 'heartbreaking' announcement

ABC News' David Muir was forced to deliver a 'heartbreaking update' on the death of a beloved film star as he returned to the World News Tonight studio
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ABC Could Return to YouTube TV, but Only If This Happens

The company also noted that during the last two U.S. elections, “the vast majority of tuned-in YouTube TV subscribers chose not to watch ABC,” further supporting its reasoning for not restoring the network temporarily. Simply put, the company doesn’t think it makes sense.
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David Muir praised for real reporting as ABC viewers sob over tragic breaking news

Hurricane Melissa brought destruction across the Caribbean after it made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday - and David Muir reported on the storm on ABC World News Tonight

Disney and YouTube TV reach new deal, ending dayslong blackout

Disney and YouTube TV reached a new deal to bring channels like ABC and ESPN back to the Google-owned live streaming platform Friday.
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