Charter and Disney’s $2 billion dispute: What it means for your favorite media companies

  • 📰 aldotcom
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 52 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 24%
  • Publisher: 68%

Belgique Nouvelles Nouvelles

Belgique Dernières Nouvelles,Belgique Actualités

Disney on Thursday yanked ESPN, ABC and Disney Channel, from Charter’s Spectrum cable service.

Other dire scenarios are possible. Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch has told investors in several recent earnings calls that Fox is slated to negotiate renewal of about a third of its carriage contracts over the next 12 months or so. Imagine if Charter or one of its rivals insisted that its customers not be forced to pay for Fox News Channel, which is the linchpin of Fox’s finances. That network is expected by S&P Global Intelligence to generate more than $1.

Charter isn’t the sector’s flashiest competitor. The company is headquartered in a new building close to a train station in downtown Stamford, CT. But it has emerged as a tough negotiator. In 2017, Charter moved cable networkslimiting the number of customers who would pay for it, partially out of frustration at the networks’ performance. It has also unveiled plans to offer a bundle of networks without sports included, a move that would reduce costs for subscribers.

Charter’s aggressive stance toward a programmer might not be so surprising, however. Liberty Broadband, a company controlled in part by media entrepreneur John Malone, owns about a quarter of Charter’s stock. Malone made a good chunk of his wealth by taking stakes in big media companies like Discovery, News Corp. and Time Warner when he ran TCI, then the nation’s largest cable distributor, in the 1980s and 1990s.

© 2023 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media; Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC

 

Merci pour votre commentaire. Votre commentaire sera publié après examen.
Nous avons résumé cette actualité afin que vous puissiez la lire rapidement. Si l'actualité vous intéresse, vous pouvez lire le texte intégral ici. Lire la suite:

 /  🏆 82. in BE

Belgique Dernières Nouvelles, Belgique Actualités

Similar News:Vous pouvez également lire des articles d'actualité similaires à celui-ci que nous avons collectés auprès d'autres sources d'information.

Disney’s feud with Spectrum owner Charter slams entertainment stocksDisney blocked its cable channels, including ESPN and ABC, from being shown on Charter’s Spectrum network after the two companies failed to secure a distribution agreement.
La source: nypost - 🏆 91. / 67 Lire la suite »

TV Stocks Fall After Charter, Disney DisputeShares of entertainment companies fell Friday after Walt Disney blocked TV channels like ESPN and ABC from Charter's cable system, Spectrum. The move from Disney came after the two com
La source: WSJ - 🏆 98. / 63 Lire la suite »

Media Stocks Tumble Following Disney-Charter DisputeShares of several big media and entertainment companies tumbled Friday as investors considered the potential fallout from an impasse between cable giant Charter Communications and media titan Walt …
La source: Variety - 🏆 108. / 63 Lire la suite »