Disney and Charter Communications have announced a deal to settle a dispute that had cut some 15 million cable TV customers off from ESPN and other Disney-owned channels, including in our area.
The two businesses faced a pressing deadline — the year’s first ‘Monday Night Football’ game airing tonight, that would have left a lot of angry football fans if they weren’t able to watch the game.
It matches the New York Jets against the Buffalo Bills, and many of the affected customers with the Charter-owned Spectrum TV are in the New York area. In our area, many Alabama and Auburn football fans were upset over not getting to watch their teams play on ESPN if they were Charter Spectrum customers.for Spectrum customers on September 1 after the media giant and Charter, Spectrum’s parent company, failed to come to terms over carrier fees, which are payments that cable and satellite-TV operators pay to media companies to carry their networks.
The companies were seeking to nail an agreement for Spectrum to carry Disney’s various cable TV properties, made difficult by cord-cutting that has cut into cable’s audience.
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