Late last week, Disney-owned channels went dark for 10 million YouTube TV subscribers. However, the pain of that didn’t really kick in until this weekend, when they lost access to ESPN and its dozens of college football games and ABC/ESPN and its Monday Night Football games. Credit: Inside The MagicThis fight between Disney and its networks and Google and YouTube does not appear to be coming to a resolution anytime soon, and now YouTube has escalated this into a war of worlds. A new Deadline report cites comments from a YouTube executive who has been involved in the negotiations saying that Disney has been “unnecessarily aggressive and assertive.” Credit: YouTube“There are aspects of their portfolio that are doing well on our platform, especially sports,” the executive said. “Disney has a very broad portfolio of channels where viewership on many networks is in decline or non-existent.”YouTube’s complaint appears to be that Disney is asking for enormous fees for its networks that no one is watching because it offers sports, particularly football, to YouTube TV’s subscribers. Disney responded that YouTube is “misrepresenting the situation.” Credit: Inside The MagicYouTube is currently looking for a better deal than the one that Disney signed with Charter two years ago. In that deal, Charter customers got free access to Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ with their Charter subscription. According to sources, Disney is offering YouTube the same agreement it gave Charter.However, YouTube TV is not budging on one sticking point. They want users to remain on their platform while accessing Disney’s streaming services, rather than leaving YouTube and going to the Disney platform.Credit: Disney“This is the latest example of Google exploiting its position at the expense of their own customers,” a Disney spokesperson said in a statement. “If we don’t reach a fair deal soon, YouTube TV customers will lose access to ESPN and ABC, and all our marquee programming — including the NFL, college football, NBA and NHL seasons — and so much more.”With Disney fighting for its cable life and YouTube/Google fighting for every last dime, this could go on for a while with 10 million subscribes stuck in the middle. Is Disney doing the right thing by fighting against YouTube TV/Google? Let us know in the comments. The post Goliath vs. Goliath: The War of Words Escalates Between Disney and Google as Millions Are Left in the Dark appeared first on Inside the Magic.