Fubo, which has not carried nearly a dozen networks from the Warner side of Warner Bros. Discovery since 2020, added a batch of Discovery channels to the blacked-out list on Tuesday. The internet-delivered pay-TV operator, which has nearly 1.7 million subscribers, reached an impasse with the former WarnerMedia networks in 2020 and networks like TNT
Carriage Dispute
Tom Carter, a longtime former Nexstar exec who is now a senior advisor to the CEO and board of directors, says the company could acquire Disney’s local ABC TV stations with “little friction” if they become available. Disney CEO Bob Iger spurred talk of a potential sale of the eight stations over the summer when
Whoopi Goldberg was absent from the Season 27 premiere episode of The View today due to yet another case of Covid, though many usual viewers throughout the country will miss the show too: The View did not air today in markets impacted by the ongoing clash between Disney and Spectrum. In New York City, for
UPDATED with Sunday statement. Disney offered an updated statement Sunday on its thorny carriage dispute with Charter, urging customers to explore switching pay-TV services if they want access to ESPN and other networks. “Consumers should also know that they have many options today and can choose from competing pay TV providers that offer Disney’s entire
ESPN and more than two dozen other Disney networks as well as ABC stations have gone dark across Spectrum, the No. 2 cable TV service in the U.S. Charter Communications, which runs Spectrum, and Disney had been locked in a distribution dispute since well before the U.S. Open tennis tournament began this week. In the
To the relief of many in the embattled pay-TV business, which faces its most uncertain fall season in decades along with existential angst due to cord-cutting, a reliable viewer draw is about to return. season kicks off on Saturday, with a slate of seven televised games starting with Notre Dame’s opener against Navy. A shadow