Disney Hits Back At Charter Claims, Says It Offered Pay-TV Operator “The Most Favorable Terms” And Proposed An Extension To Keep ESPN And Other Networks From Going Dark
Reading now: 841
deadline.comDisney has hit back at claims by Charter Communications execs that the media company declined to pursue innovative carriage deals and instead just wanted to ram through price increases.
The companies have been locked in a carriage dispute since last night, with ESPN and 17 other Disney networks going dark on Charter’s Spectrum TV service, along with eight ABC stations.
The outage is coming as college football season gets going and the NFL season gets set to start, with football the top draw among all live sports.
The U.S. Open Tennis Championships are also being sidelined by the dispute for nearly 15 million Spectrum subscribers in many key markets, including New York and LA.
Read more on deadline.com
The website celebsbar.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.
