DirecTV subscribers are currently facing a blackout of Disney Channel and other Disney-owned services due to an ongoing contract disagreement between Disney and DirecTV. However, families can still access their favorite Disney content with some advance planning.

With a new football season, Disney and DirecTV are involved in a contentious carriage fee negotiation with Disney pulling its content — including ABC and ESPN.

The Walt Disney Company and DirecTV failed to reach an agreement before the pay TV provider's contract ended, so ESPN are no longer being broadcast.

DirecTV and Disney are making a new agreement while 11 million are without ESPN, Disney and more channels. Here's how to watch what you're missing.

Fubo TV (free trial): fuboTV carries ESPN, FOX, ABC, NBC and CBS. For $74.99 per month, fans can watch games on all ESPN networks. You can sign up for a one-week free trial and also watch the SEC Network, Big Ten Network, ESPNU, CBS Sports Network on fuboTV with some additional costs.

Negotiations for a new carriage deal between Disney and DirecTV are continuing into this weekend, reports Deadline. Meanwhile, the two are lobbing messaging at customers who are left out in the cold as the first NFL weekend kicks off.

It takes a lot for a pay-TV service to subsidize its own customers if they want to sample a competitor, but in a surprise move, DirecTV will do just that. With the carriage dispute between Disney and DirecTV dragging on,

Disney's ongoing dispute with DIRECTV may lead to revenue losses and impact its net income, benefiting Charter and Comcast in the changing pay-TV landscape. See more here.

As DirecTV's carriage dispute with the Walt Disney Company enters its sixth day, the two parties are offering the satellite TV giant's more than 11 million subscribers $30 credits to Sling TV, Fubo and Hulu with Live TV to make up for the ongoing programming blackout.

We have not had DirecTV for many years, but because we are an AT&T U-Verse customer, we lost our access to the U.S. Open tennis tournament.