Amid an ongoing carriage dispute with YouTube TV, Disney/ESPN abruptly pulled its programming from the popular streaming service Thursday evening just before midnight ET. The Disney/ESPN blackout quickly created a stir online among angry YouTube TV customers,

ESPN received strong backlash after it sent a message to YouTube TV customers this week amid a standoff over rights.

On late Thursday evening, ESPN PR announced that Disney would be removing its programming from Google's YouTubeTV beginning immediately.

YouTube TV took to social media on October 30 to let customers know that they and the “House of Mouse” weren’t seeing eye to eye on an agreement, so they did not agree to terms that would have kept Disney and ESPN networks on the television streaming provider’s lineup:

Fans need a program to know how to watch the Cleveland Cavs in the upcoming season, primarily because the team’s popularity and media rights deals with new partners NBC/Peacock and Amazon, as well as old ones ABC/ESPN, has dictated change. For most ...