Correct, it's applied to the Next bill, not the current bill ... you also don't get it if your Paused.
FWIW...my second email came in 5 hours after the first email, yesterday.
Ok, you got the second email ...
If you click on on the link that I sent, you can claim it. tv.youtube.com/settings/service_updates
Ok, so after reading your email ... there really was no reason for You Tube TV to add the portion about a follow up email will be sent in a few days ...
My parents are talking about switching to Fubo/Hulu+Live, but they don't want to pay the higher price. Sounds like they are going to pay either way if they want ESPN, which my mom definitely does want.A good analysis on why this blackout is exactly what ABC/Disney was planning on all along, as well as how we're now in cable 2.0:
Doesn't this sound like a Monopoly ?A good analysis on why this blackout is exactly what ABC/Disney was planning on all along, as well as how we're now in cable 2.0:
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Well Im pretty sure YTTV is now the largest supplier of content? I guess thats up to them. It will tell you what will happen in the future, as so many channels controlled by so few companies.Report: YouTube TV demanding lowest rates for Disney of all pay TV distributors
Report: YouTube TV demanding lowest rates for Disney of all pay TV distributors
YouTube TV is reportedly demanding the lowest rates for Disney of all pay TV distributors, which could trigger "Most Favored Nation" clauses.
"According to Puck's sports media correspondent John Ourand, YouTube TV is demanding rates from Disney that are lower than the three other largest pay TV distributors in the country: Comcast, Charter, and DirecTV. In fact, Disney has reportedly agreed to provide YouTube TV, currently the fourth-largest pay TV distributor, with rates equal to those of the three largest distributors, but YouTube TV is insisting on "a better rate," per Ourand.
Should Disney capitulate and give YouTube TV a better price than the other three distributors, Disney's prior carriage agreements with Comcast, Charter, and DirecTV would almost certainly trigger "Most Favored Nations" clauses within those contracts. As a result, Disney would be forced to offer the same lower rates to the three other distributors."
How though?
The problem is we do not know what Hulu/Fubo (of which Disney owns 70%) pays. If they are giving themselves a better price, then I would call that self-dealing and say it is monopolistic. If not, then it would at most be self-preferential because Hulu/Fubo aren't going to have a carriage dispute like other competitors. I'd guess the latter. Disney's lawyers are smart enough to avoid the appearance of being a monopoly, plus they want the money to pay for all the sports.
No its antitrust actually, here look.
it's really not. there are serveral players in the space and price fixing is not occurring. Courts don't deal with emotional reactions ("this feels like a monopoly") and there are a series of checkboxes that need to be met before something rises to this level. Everything is on the up and up here. Two companies arguing over the cost of goods and services is exactly how the system is designed to operate.
They can't - or they would have to charge Comcast, Spectrum, et al the same price. The difference is Disney is just moving money between departments here. The bigger issue would be if Disney says we're charging you $10/sub for this service, but DTC we charge customers $5. That would be self-dealing and undercutting, but again, Disney can charge whatever it thinks the market can bear and providers can pay whatever they feel is fair. That's capitalism.
The first sentence seems to contradict the last sentence, or at least that is how I read it. In any case, you hit on the bigger issue which is the DTC sports play they have with ESPN Unlimited.
With the price of ESPN unlimited being well known, one would think that if it was vastly under what they are charging the providers we would have found that out already.
I don't necessarily think that is what really matters to Disney. What matters is whether people (sports fans) will be more willing to pay $30 for ESPN Unlimited than to pay $85 for YTTV if almost everything they watch is sports (most of which is on ESPN/ABC) -- in addition to the Peacock, Prime, etc. subscriptions that they need to see "all the games" anyway. That is why I think that DTC is probably what matters to Disney in this world of shrinking linear TV subs.
