ESPN, Other Disney Networks & ABC Stations Go Dark On Spectrum Cable Systems In Carriage Fight

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ESPN and 18 other Disney networks as well as ABC stations have gone dark across Spectrum, the No. 2 cable TV service in the U.S.

Charter Communications, which runs Spectrum, and Disney had been locked in a distribution dispute since well before the U.S.

Open tennis tournament began this week. In the coming days, college football and the NFL will kick off, potentially putting two massive sports properties on the list of programming unavailable to Spectrum customers.

Along with the ESPN family of networks, the carriage fight also involves FX and a number of non-sports networks as well as ABC stations. (See the full list below.) Spectrum ran spots during ESPN’s coverage of U.S.