Following a more-than-10-day ESPN and ABC station blackout that infuriated customers and threatened to accelerate the demise of the cable bundle, Walt Disney Co. and cable giant Charter Communications reached a truce that restored Disney channels to the Spectrum pay-TV service.The companies announced a new agreement Monday that requires Charter to pay higher fees to distribute Disney programming. The cable company gained the ability to provide Disney’s ad-supported streaming apps — including Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ — along with Spectrum’s television service. Charter eventually will be able to offer the ESPN channel as a streaming add-on when Disney takes that service directly to consumers.Some analysts had warned that a failure to resolve the dispute would have expedited the unraveling of the traditional pay-TV bundle. Charter’s chief executive, Christopher Winfrey, said early on that his company was prepared to “move on” from carrying Disney channels, which would have marked a major disruption in the entertainment landscape — and diminished Disney’s clout.https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-09-11/charter-disney-deal-to-return-espn-abc-to-spectrum-blackout (ICE LOS ANGELES)

Fonte notizia: Los Angeles Times