Almost 15 million Spectrum cable subscribers nationwide — including more than 1.5 million in New York — are in danger of missing Aaron Rodgers’ much-anticipated Jets debut as he takes on in-state rival the Buffalo Bills on “Monday Night Football” because of a bitter financial squabble between Charter Communications and Walt Disney Co. “So now that … Read more
Charter Communications Chief Executive Chris Winfrey said he has a sense of urgency to resolve a distribution dispute with Walt Disney, in remarks on Thursday at a tech conference in San Francisco. Charter is locked in a distribution battle with Disney as the second-largest US cable company negotiates with the media conglomerate over how much its channels are … Read more
If the Spectrum versus ESPN battle is the Super Bowl of cable rights disputes, then Aaron Rodgers may be the one who settles it. In the fight that began late last week, ESPN has Rodgers’ Jets debut on “Monday Night Football,” which could either restore the Disney channels, including the all-sports network, to the nearly … Read more
The carriage dispute that has left Disney-owned channels including ESPN off Charter’s Spectrum service seems like it could take awhile to sort out. To be sure, there are times in which channels go dark and companies issue sternly-worded statements about each other before their issues get resolved hours later — like what happened with Comcast … Read more
Customers of Charter’s Spectrum cable service hoping to watch Florida-Utah on ESPN are being met with a blackout. ESPN went dark on the service on Thursday as the two sides are in a carriage dispute. Wall Street Journal media reporter Joe Flint shared a tweet of the screen on ESPN for Spectrum customers. Customers of … Read more