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Consumerism in 2025: Disney Wants YouTubeTV to Restore ABC for Election Day, Doesn’t Care About Monday Night Football

Kyle Pagan

By Kyle Pagan

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As you know, Disney and YouTubeTV haven’t been able to cut a deal, so ESPN and ABC are not being shown on the YTTV platform currently:

So if your favorite college football team was playing on ABC this weekend you were shit out of luck. If you didn’t have a workaround you missed out on top-25 matchups like Georgia vs. Florida, Texas vs. Vanderbilt, and Oklahoma vs. Tennessee. If you don’t care about college football, well, now you’re on the wrong end of it because there will be no Monday Night Football on your TV tonight. No Cowboys vs. Cardinals for any YouTubeTV subscribers. Why? Cause fuck you that’s why. You chose the wrong provider this time. You pay your bill every month on time and you still get screwed over. It’s amazing how much these companies take, take, and take but never give anything back to the consumer. They’ve got us by the balls and it’s all over a fraction of the profits The Mouse and Google will make this year.

It’s not just television providers either. It’s everywhere. Yesterday I DoorDash’d a cheesesteak while watching football. Place was a mile down the road, but I wasn’t getting off my couch. So I’m waiting 30+ minutes and I see my driver hasn’t moved after picking up the order. No problem, maybe he’s waiting for more deliveries. Get as many Double Dash’s as you can my friend. But the time just kept increasing. First it got into an hour. Then 75 minutes. I’m texting the guy on the app – nothing. I’m calling and he’s picking up, but not saying anything. Now I’m pissed! I’m a pawn in his game. He’s kidnapped my cheesesteak! I know he has it because they send you a picture of the order when they pick it up! So I get in touch with support, which is just some AI robot filled with pre-recorded phrases that can’t help me, so I then request to talk to a human. I get on with a human and the my Dasher cancels the fucking order! After waiting for 90 minutes I’m just here starving, pissed off, and cheesesteak-less. I know that motherfucker ate it too because it was from Del Rossi’s and they’re one of the best in the entire world. Of course all the DoorDash support can offer is a refund and a $5 credit, which won’t even cover the delivery fees next time. That’s not the point. At this point it’s about pride. I was seeing red. I’m hungover and hungry and all I want to do is drown my arteries in gelatinous cheesesteak goodness. There are consequences to your actions. Nope. The customer service rep doesn’t want to hear how terrible this entire customer experience was and just ends the chat. He literally pulled a get out of jail free card and his employee is grubbing on my cheesesteak! If it wasn’t for the half filled bag of pretzel sticks I found in the back of the pantry and the Bears -2.5 miracle cover I would’ve been catatonic. Will I ever order from DoorDash ever again? Absolutely. That’s the state of consumerism in 2025. Every time you need a company to hold up their end of the bargain you just hope it’s not the worst fucking experience imaginable. A lot of times it isn’t, but when it is, oh baby it’s one for the record books. I can’t wait until HBO raises their prices because of the millions of dollars they blew for a McKinsey consultant to tell them to switch from HBO MAX, to MAX, back to HBO MAX again.

I say all of this because this YTTV tweet is giving me PTSD:

Don’t worry if the standoff goes on for an extended period of time, the trillion dollar company will give you a $20 credit as a sorry. Isn’t it dystopian Google puts the price on your head at a quarter of what a monthly subscription costs to YTTV? Ironically, I’m not even mad at them in this whole situation. Disney gets my full ire. It’s convenient after ESPN releases their app a couple months ago they play hardball with their broadcast partners. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence. But the only reason why I subscribe to YTTV in the first place is because of sports and now I can’t watch all of the sports I want to. The funny part? ABC is trying to get YTTV to put their broadcast channel back on the air for Election Day:

Absolutely not. I hope YTTV tells The Mouse to go fuck themselves. People can get their election coverage from CBS, NBC, and FOX. You don’t get to take your ball and go home and then try to come back to the park and play with us when we buy another one. I don’t care that this would get me out of having to break the news to my wife that she’s not going to be able to watch Dancing With the Stars tomorrow. There are consequences for your actions. You think the election is more important than Monday Night Football?

I dare YTTV and Disney to let this extend to next Monday. You want the wrath of millions of Eagles fans, you be my guest. We’ll make January 6th look like child’s play.

Kyle Pagan
Kyle Pagan

Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com

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