A class action has arrived at the doorstep of Charter Communications in its high-stakes carriage standoff with The Walt Disney Co. A Florida customer of Charter’s Spectrum service, Jen Gonzal…
“Unlike other cable providers, Spectrum, “declined Disney’s offer to extend negotiations which would have kept Disney-owned networks up for consumers in the middle of perennial programming events like the US Open and college football,” the lawsuit states. “Instead of providing the programming its viewers pay hundreds of dollars a month for, Spectrum, in the middle of the U.S.
Charter has told customers that they offered Disney a “fair deal, yet they are demanding an excessive increase.” Yet Charter CEO Chris Winfrey
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