Football fans will be the next biggest losers if an epic battle between Walt Disney and Charter Communications fails to settle before the kickoff of Monday Night Football next week.
ESPN and other Disney channels disappeared from Charter's Spectrum cable service on Aug. 31, as contract negotiations reached an impasse. That deprived nearly 15 million Spectrum cable subscribers of access to key sporting events, potentially including Saturday's U.S. Open match pitting 19-year-old American Coco Gauff against the world's highest ranked player, Aryna Sabalenka, in the women's final.
Disney announced this spring that Monday Night Football games would be carried on both ESPN and its ABC Network. That means Spectrum cable subscribers who live in markets with a local ABC TV affiliate not owned by Disney, including Buffalo, New York, will be able to watch Monday's NFL match-up broadcast. That's not the case for Spectrum video customers who live in New York City and Los Angeles, which are served by Disney-owned television stations.
Charter is seeking greater flexibility in its programming packages and the ability to offer Disney's ad-supported streaming services to its subscribers at no additional charge.
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