YouTube sent me an email that they will offer a $20 credit due to the lack of Disney content. The kicker: the credit isn’t automatically applied… a second email is coming with instructions on what I must do to receive the credit.
Keeping it classy. Kevin M. (RPCV) On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 5:07 AM 'Bob F' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > But the NBA, like any major sports entity, also has *its own* YouTube > channel... aaaaand I don't think any of their TV partners can block content > from that. > B > > PGage, to Jim Ellwanger, in part, Nov 7th: > > The same point was made on puck news last night (See you below). > > I experienced my first real pain of the YouTube TV/Disney war earlier > this week when I found I was not able to access the Lakers-Spurs game, One > of the real marquee matchups of the early NBA season. It was particularly > painful because I thought I was immune to this blow because even though I > usually watch ESPN NBA games via YouTube TV, I do also have the Disney > bundle and my understanding had been that I would be able to access the NBA > through the ESPN app. But it turned out. It seems like an access almost > everything on the ESPN app EXCEPT the NBA. The app Ask for my TV provider > when I try to access the game and when I told her it was YouTube TV > basically laughed in my face. Early the next morning, I talked to my son > who was in the same boat and he advised me to do what he had done, which > was to search. “NBA Laker highlights” On regular YouTube, where I did find > a pretty nice almost 30 minute long package of excerpts from the game that > I could watch to get a feel of how the game had progressed and then also > watched another 30 minute package of post game interviews. > > If Disney escalates its war by removing all of its content from regular > YouTube, in addition to YouTube TV, we would not even have had that. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/b73ca04d-180b-4c57-af05-ec07adf4c101n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/b73ca04d-180b-4c57-af05-ec07adf4c101n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4DKtFpaNOruhJ8VehRYVdiVwaCAUutm6rbL9BzuyJutqQ%40mail.gmail.com.
