ESPN used its high-profile season opener of Monday Night Football to warn DirecTV viewers of a looming carriage deadline with the AT&T-owned distributor. The exact date of the contract expirati…
Channel and Freeform networks, as well as Disney-owned local stations, including WABC in New York and KABC in LA. Also hanging in the balance is ESPN’s fledgling ACC Network as well as the college-sports Longhorn Network.
AT&T signals of Monday’s double-header featured not only the standard commercial spot warnings but also messages embedded in the on-screen ticker across the bottom of the screen.“Our contract with AT&T for the ABC, ESPN, Disney, and Freeform networks is due to expire soon, so we have a responsibility to make our viewers aware of the potential loss of our programming,” Disney said in a statement sent to Deadline.
Our goal is always to deliver the content our customers want at a value that also makes sense to them. We’ll continue to fight for that here and appreciate their patience while we work this matter out.” AT&T has had impasses recently with CBS for its owned TV stations as well as Nexstar for nearly 120 local stations. Both were resolved but only after stations went dark.had the first report of the latest dustup. Here are a couple of tweets showing the ways Disney got its messages out:
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