Rogers said<\/a> the power of legacy media, like Disney, has \u201clost some of its real punch in terms of marketplace strength.\u201d Johnston was asked to respond.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cI think that\u2019s an exaggeration a bit more than it\u2019s a reality,\u201d Johnston said.<\/p>\n
\n\tOn a conference following his CNBC appearance, Johnston elaborated on the YouTube TV situation a bit. He told media analysts that Disney \u201cbuilt a hedge\u201d into its Q1 2026 guidance \u201cwith the expectation that these discussions could go for a little while in terms of the dollar impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tKeep in mind, there\u2019s two pieces to it,\u201d Johnston said. \u201cThere\u2019s the piece that we\u2019re not getting paid for, and then the piece that we\u2019re picking up by virtue of subscribers moving elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tDisney CEO Bob Iger also weighed in on the standoff during the call. Read his uninterrupted comments below:<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cFirst of all, obviously, we care deeply about our consumer and our priority has always been to remain on their service without interruption, to close a deal on a timely basis so that interruption does not occur. The deal that we have proposed is equal to or better than what other large distributors have already agreed to. So we\u2019re not trying to really break any new ground. <\/p>\n
And while we\u2019ve been working tirelessly to close this deal and restore our channels to the platform, it\u2019s also imperative that we make sure that we agree to a deal that reflects the value that we deliver, which both YouTube, by the way, and Alphabet, have told us is greater than the value of any other provider. <\/p>\n
So we\u2019re not trying to break new ground. The offer that\u2019s on the table is commensurate with deals that we\u2019ve already struck with, actually, distributors that are larger than they are. We\u2019re trying really hard, as I said, working tirelessly, to close this deal, and we\u2019re hopeful that we\u2019ll be able to do so on a timely enough basis to at least give consumers the opportunity to access our content over their platform.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugh Johnston is ready to go 12 rounds \u2014 maybe 15. The Disney CFO said on CNBC on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":377924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,7299,67,132,68,100250],"class_list":{"0":"post-377923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-disney","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-youtube-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115547155008349341","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}