Disney, Charter Settle Cable Dispute Hours Before Debut of ESPN’s ‘Monday Night Football’
variety.comBrian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Disney and Charter have decided to let ESPN sports take the field on traditional cable after all.
The two media giants, battling for the past week over a renewal for carriage of Disney’s various cable networks on Charter’s major-market cable systems, have come to new terms, according to the companies.
The deal puts Disney networks like ESPN, ABC and Freeform back on Charter’s cable service. But their squabble, even though now settled, has the potential to echo in the media sector for months to come as distributors push back on major programmers like Disney that are increasingly putting more of their best content on stand-alone streaming services.
While cable networks were at the center of the fight between the two companies, much of the deal has to do with the potential of streaming.
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