“I apologize that our consumers have been put in the middle here, but we felt it was worth it,” Chris Winfrey said.
as the second-largest US cable company negotiates with the media conglomerate over how much its channels are worth and how to package them.
ESPN, ABC and other Disney channels disappeared from Charter’s Spectrum cable service on Aug. 31, depriving its nearly 15 million video subscribers of access to theSuch “carriage disputes” are commonplace in the media world, though this negotiation may shape the future of television in the streaming era.
“As the US Open reaches the men’s and women’s finals, and fans gear up for a weekend of college football and the opening of the NFL season, it’s unfortunate that Charter decided to abandon their consumers by denying them access to our great programming,” Disney said in a statement.Winfrey said Charter wanted to resolve the dispute quickly “because our customers are stuck in the middle.”
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