{"id":1678,"date":"2025-11-03T16:28:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2025-11-03T16:28:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:28:39","slug":"espn-sticks-it-to-youtube-tv-college-football-fans-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/sports-media\/espn-sticks-it-to-youtube-tv-college-football-fans-again\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Sticks It To YouTube TV College Football Fans Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just one day after Disney pulled <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/sports-media\/espn-and-abc-pulled-from-major-tv-providers-lineup\/\" target=\"_self\">all of its programming off YouTube TV<\/a> due to a carriage dispute, one of the networks rubbed salt in the wound of the provider&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/\" target=\"_self\">college football<\/a> fans.\u00a0 ESPN announced that viewers could watch College Gameday, its three-hour Saturday pregame show for free on the ESPN app.\u00a0 Co-host Pat McAfee also announced the show would stream live on his <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PatMcAfeeShow\/status\/1984613447880097817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">X account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">LADIES AND GENTLEMEN..<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollegeGameDay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@CollegeGameDay<\/a> LIVE FROM BEAUTIFUL SALT LAKE CITY<a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HRfclAjrPY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/HRfclAjrPY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatMcAfeeShow\/status\/1984613447880097817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Disney and Google, which owns YouTube TV, are currently in a dispute over carriage of Disney&#8217;s family of networks, which in addition to ESPN and its family of networks includes ABC, Nat Geo, FX, and the Disney Channel. Google claims that Disney&#8217;s fee request would force the television provider to again raise its price to consumers, giving its own streaming services (Hulu + Live TV and Fubo) an unfair advantage.\u00a0 Disney in turn accused Google of denying its customers of some of its most-watched content.<\/p>\n<h2>What Might ESPN Do Next To Draw Viewers Away From YouTube TV?<\/h2>\n<h3>Disney could dig in for a long blackout to get its fee demands<\/h3>\n<p>With the two sides unable to come to an agreement on what the provider should have to pay for the rights to air Disney&#8217;s broadcasts, it makes sense that the network would look to do whatever it takes to strengthen its stance as to why it deserves the carriage fees it desires.<\/p>\n<p>Owning a competitor to YouTube TV (albeit one with about half the subscriber base), Disney could look to try and get as many YouTube TV subscribers to make the jump to Hulu + Live TV as they can.\u00a0 The service already offers a free trial for new users, but one possibility is offering the trial to YouTube TV subscribers, even if they aren&#8217;t new subscribers, with proof of cancellation of Google&#8217;s service.\u00a0 Hulu + Live TV would also give those subscribers a free subscription to ESPN&#8217;s direct-to-consumer unlimited service, which is currently not available for YouTube TV subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Those sort of moves would certainly draw a line in the sand between the network and the provider, but also could determine just which side has the stronger argument to its case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just one day after Disney pulled all of its programming off YouTube TV due to a carriage dispute, one of the networks rubbed salt in the wound of the provider&#8217;s college football fans.\u00a0 ESPN announced that viewers could watch College Gameday, its three-hour Saturday pregame show for free on the ESPN app.\u00a0 Co-host Pat McAfee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5660,"featured_media":1681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[267,238,266,283],"tags":[355,75,356],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-espn","category-sports-media","category-networks","category-youtube","tag-college-gameday","tag-featured","tag-pat-mcafee"],"modified_by":"Steve Carney","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}