Disney and Charter Communications end their multibillion-dollar dispute, restoring ESPN to neatly 15 million cable TV customers hours before “Monday Night Football,” but was this really a “transfor…
Clearly, USTA CEO Lew Sherr doesn’t have nearly as much juice as the NFL’s Roger Goodell. Then again, that’s not exactly a fair fight.
We still seem to be in the land in between. While so many TV homes have abandoned cable or satellite to go all-in on streaming entertainment, a healthy percentage still maintain cable or satellite subscriptions. And the suspicion here is that a good number of those hang on specifically because of their variety of sports programming, be it ESPN, Fox Sports, the Bally or Spectrum SportsNet channels, etc.
Maybe we should have taken the hint a few months ago when Charter quietly removed the requirement that its Lakers and Dodgers regional networks, originally launched by Time Warner Cable, be included on other systems’ main viewing tiers. That was the original motivation for those networks’ carriage disputes, which among other things kept the Dodgers’ channel off of DirecTV for six full seasons.
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