Here’s what we know about YouTube losing its Disney-owned TV channels and a list of the channels that are affected.

The disagreement causing the ESPN and ABC outage stems from the "carriage fee" that YouTube TV pays Disney to broadcast its channels. Disney has faced similar negotiating standoffs with other broadcasters in recent years, including a 2021 outage on YouTubeTV that was resolved in two days.

Over 10 million YouTube TV subscribers just lost access to all Disney-owned networks, including ESPN and ABC. At midnight on Oct. 30, the distribution deal between Disney, which owns ESPN, ABC and numerous other networks, ended, and at present, there's no deal in place to keep the networks on the nation's most popular live TV streaming service.

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YouTube TV and Disney could not reach a contract agreement, leaving subscribers without ABC and ESPN channels before a big college football weekend.

Disney and YouTube TV are stuck in a stalemate. ESPN personalities are appealing to YouTube TV customers, but their messages might not be resonating.

ESPN's Pat McAfee came up with a clever solution for all YouTube TV subscribers attempting to watch Week 11 of "College GameDay."