What are the expected Black Friday deals?
I'm wondering if Disney/Hulu/ ESPN will do anything again this year.

Renewal day is this week for me for ESPN/Fox One

MLB will be on Netflix, NBC/Peacock, and ESPN.

Netflix picking up more live sports.

TNT/TBS - don't appear to be involved.

MLB has formed new three-year media rights agreements with Netflix, NBCUniversal, and ESPN.

The agreements, which cover rights for the 2026-2028 MLB seasons, mark the return of NBC to regularly airing MLB games on its broadcast network for the first time in 26 years, will expand… pic.twitter.com/uqMXYpbQFP

— MLB (@MLB) November 19, 2025

Iowaggie said:

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MLB will be on Netflix, NBC/Peacock, and ESPN.

Netflix picking up more live sports.

TNT/TBS - don't appear to be involved.

MLB has formed new three-year media rights agreements with Netflix, NBCUniversal, and ESPN.

The agreements, which cover rights for the 2026-2028 MLB seasons, mark the return of NBC to regularly airing MLB games on its broadcast network for the first time in 26 years, will expand… pic.twitter.com/uqMXYpbQFP

— MLB (@MLB) November 19, 2025

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Of course, the games you want to watch will all be blacked out.

Iowaggie said:

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TNT/TBS - don't appear to be involved

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TNT's current deal goes thru '28 i believe

Need to cancel Disney anyway. If they offer me that $5 deal, I'll recommit though.

So I go to cancel my Disney+ subscription and I get this: Sorry, an unexpected error has occurred. Please try again later.

Haha. How convenient. FU Disney. I'll be cancelling outright now, and you will get no money instead of some money.

Is anyone else having issues with trying to Redeem the Disney+ $4.99 Black Friday deal? Their f'ing website keeps giving me an unexpected error. I've tried this across multiple browsers all with the same outcome.

FL_Ag1998 said:

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You literally just said you were canceling your subscription and they were getting no more money from you!

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Well, I have since just cancelled. I qualify for the BF deal but the site won't let me Redeem it nor will it let me change my current plan. In addition, they unfairly charged me my current rate of $14.08 today when I could have paid $5 if their website wasn't f'ing me. So, I will watch everything I want to watch for next 30 days and then be done with it.

You probably don't qualify for the deal since you only just now cancelled.

TXAG 05 said:

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You probably don't qualify for the deal since you only just now cancelled.

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No, I had a notification that said I qualified even when logged into my account. Regardless, I was unable to even change my current plan period regardless of the deal. In other words, if I wanted to actually upgrade and pay more it was still erroring out. Not able to change at all.

They did offer me $7 per month for 3 months when I cancelled but nah.

I just signed up for it and it said only new or returning customers are eligible.

Try signing up through Hulu instead of Disney, or vice versa.

What is weird for me is that I signed up for the ESPN, Disney, Hulu bundle, but my email address/login doesn't work in Hulu and I have to access via Disney.

Iowaggie said:

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Try signing up through Hulu instead of Disney, or vice versa.

What is weird for me is that I signed up for the ESPN, Disney, Hulu bundle, but my email address/login doesn't work in Hulu and I have to access via Disney.

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Thats how Hulu is for me on all my devices now. Hulu doesnt allow you to log in without having a Disney account now, which I don't want. So basically I can't watch Hulu on any of my devices now (Apple TV, fire stick, roku, laptop, iPhone, iPad) with my Hulu login, which is clearly the point of the changes. They're consolidating everything to push their changes along, and now I can no longer use Hulu without at a minimum signing up for a Disney account, which will likely lead to eliminating a Hulu-only option altogether, which I believe is the plan that's coming. So might as well not bother with Hulu anymore unless willing to eventually accept also paying for disney+ once that happens. Disney loves ruining things...

But it works. Smart mouse.

All right, I got Hulu app to work.

I had been able to access Hulu through Disney+, but to access via the Hulu app, I had to "activate' it through my Disneyplus.com account settings I accessed via the Web.

Iowaggie said:

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All right, I got Hulu app to work.

I had been able to access Hulu through Disney+, but to access via the Hulu app, I had to "activate' it through my Disneyplus.com account settings I accessed via the Web.

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Yeah, thats how it works now as long as you already have a disney+ account (whether you pay for their service or not), but those of us with just a Hulu account are blocked from access, regardless of if we actually should be able to use Hulu independently.

Yes, I could make a Disney account to make it work, but that's not the issue here. The issue is that we shouldn't have to. Why can't people use one account to use one service instead of two accounts for that same service...? It's not even stubbornness, it's more a matter of being forced to do something that shouldn't be necessary, especially with a horrible organization like Disney. Especially knowing that they're killing the entire platform as it has been used forever. But using that logic, I guess it's just a matter of time until Hulu isn't even an option on it's own, so might as well cut it now after they've basically decided that's the plan anyway and they're just pushing that along beforehand.

Yeah, they've already announced Hulu is getting absorbed and going away in 2026. It will just be the Disney+ app going forward.

YouTube TV will release a sports bundle that will include ESPN networks, FS1, and NBC Sports Network.

The price is TBD, but it will be less than the $82.99 per month base price for the full YouTube TV service. pic.twitter.com/NYRvTF1RMh

— Front Office Sports (@FOS) December 10, 2025

YouTube TV will launch a Sports Plan in early '26.

- Includes: ABC/CBS/Fox/NBC, ESPN, FS1, NBCSN, TNT, USA, etc.
- RSNs not mentioned in the announcement
- RedZone sold as add-on

My guess on price point: $55-65/month (gun to my head: $61.99)https://t.co/qrYZwwTYgN

— ✏️Jacob Feldman (@JacobFeldman4) December 10, 2025

Excited to introduce @YouTubeTV Plans to give you more choice and control over what you’re watching 📺

Early next year we’ll start rolling out 10+ genre-specific packages, including our new Sports Plan 🏈

You'll be able to easily choose the plan that works best for you, while… https://t.co/wk1ZuMlp57

— Neal Mohan (@nealmohan) December 10, 2025

YouTube TV Announces 10 New Cheaper TV Packages Coming in 2026 With a Cheaper Sports Package https://t.co/Cw2If7RfsQ

— CordCuttersNews (@CordCuttersNews) December 10, 2025

In on the new sports package if it has the broadcast channels. Thats all I need. Will be curious to see how many people downgrade to that. No one is watching any of the other random channels out there.

YouBet said:

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In on the new sports package if it has the broadcast channels. Thats all I need. Will be curious to see how many people downgrade to that. No one is watching any of the other random channels out there.

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I might be the last person on earth, but any channel that's airing Seinfeld reruns I'll put on in the background while I'm doing other things around the house. Hell, I never once watched it when it was on, but the same goes for King of Queen episodes, I'm embarrassed to say. AMC even has an "AMC Stories" channel that often airs Mad Men 24/7 for weeks at a time. I realize I could just stream any of the shows at any time, but there's a "live," listening-to-the-radio quality I still like. Same goes for ransoms movies on TNT, FX, etc. That, and I still do cable news from time-to-time as well. To that end, though, if I can bundle a "Sports" and "News" package, I'll probably finally give up everything else.