Disney+ Struggles

Our family's favorite night of the week became super stressful tonight when YouTube TV dropped all of the ABC channels from its lineup due to a contract negotiation failure with Disney.  That meant that only Disney+ subscribers were allowed to watch Dancing with the Stars this evening.  Since Disney+ only allowed one home network and one mobile viewer on their streaming system, it became extremely stressful for those family members outside of our home to watch the show.  They would first have to have a passcode from Doug's email to login to the app and then once too many people were on from outside of our home network, it would kick individual viewers out.  

Brett called first when he realized that he couldn't login easily.  After several attempts, he finally got the streaming service to work, but once my mom and dad logged on, it kicked him out.  This occurred multiple times until Karen finally talked Brett into signing up for his own service plan so they could watch the dance show, and all other Disney shows plus Hulu without interruption.  Once Brett made the switch, the service came back on for my parents so that they could continue to watch the show.  Thankfully, Cal and Maggie were able to watch from her parents' account and never had to compete with others using our plan.  Meg and Nick had gotten the streaming service a long time ago when they realized that Disney was going to make it a lot harder to share services.  They watched the app more than anyone else in our family and wanted to make sure that they never had to worry about losing access to it.  

In the end, everyone was able to watch Danielle get sent home tonight eliciting cheers from Cal and relief from those who were rooting for Andy to make it one more week.  Hopefully, Google and Disney will come up with a compromise that gives everyone access to ABC and ESPN soon.  Otherwise, more people from our family will have to sign up for yet another streaming service with inordinate monthly fees.  I hate to cancel some of our favorite services, but the cost is getting to be astronomical.  With all of the other rising costs lately, I guess that I shouldn't be surprised.