There’s a lot of disputes going around in Hollywood at the moment. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) are both in the midst of a heated battle with studios like Disney over proper pay and reasonable protections. Meanwhile, Disney itself is in the midst of a heated battle, this one with cable TV provider Charter Spectrum.
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The dispute began last Friday with Disney pulling over two dozen channels and stations off the air, impacting over 15 million subscribers in densely populated cities like Los Angeles and New York City. The dispute doesn’t seem to be stopping anytime soon, and The View was the first major show to feel the effects of it during its season 27 premiere today. In fact, if you can believe it, Disney is going out of its way to urge people to ditch cable TV entirely, which sure, is as modern as a company can get, but it doesn’t exactly smell right coming from a company that owns ABC.
Elsewhere, concerns over Star Wars joining the MCU in the worst way possible are running rampant after yet another calendar shuffle impacted half a dozen Marvel projects last weekend.
Whoopi Goldberg wasn’t the only person to miss out on the season 27 premiere of The View
If The View is one of your favorite daytime talk shows and you’re a paying customer of Spectrum Cable, you’d be perfectly within your right to be miffed about the ongoing Spectrum Cable Disney dispute. After all, you completely missed the season 27 premiere, which kind of sucks if you’re a fan. In fact, over 15 million people who pay for Spectrum, many of whom reside in The View’s hometown New York City, missed the premiere. Upon flipping the channel to ABC, Deadline reports that viewers were met with this message: “The Walt Disney Company, owner of this channel, has removed their programming from Spectrum. We offered Disney a fair deal, and yet they continue to demand an excessive increase.”
My grandmother may have passed away, but she was an avid watcher of The View, and if she was easing into her comfy sofa on a Tuesday morning excited to tune in to her favorite “program,” as she liked to call it, I can tell you right now she would not only be confused by that message, but also upset. This leads us to our next point, which I can’t help but view through the eyes of a 94-year-old Sicilian lady born in 1928, and I urge you to do the same.
Cable-shmable — Disney says to heck with negotiations and urges people to pay for streaming instead
Labor Day weekend is a three-day weekend for millions of people in the U.S., but this year it was also “frustrating” (Dinsey’s words, not mine) thanks to the ongoing Spectrum Cable Disney dispute. Millions of Spectrum customers were barred from watching their favorite sports and daytime talk shows like The View. Disney recognizes this and said in a statement that the ball is in Charter Spectrum’s court to revisit Disney’s offer (we have a feeling Charter Spectrum is saying the same thing).
“Instead of enjoying major sporting events such as the return of college football and the US Open, ESPN and other Disney-owned channels like ABC were blacked out due to a dispute between Spectrum’s parent company—Charter Communications—and Disney Entertainment. Unfortunately, the dispute is still ongoing.
Again, I can’t help but imagine my 94-year-old Sicilian grandma being met with this statement. I can hear her now shouting “What the heck is Hulu plus live TV? Why can’t I just have my cable?”
Yeah, Disney. Why can’t she just have her cable?
Schooch over Marvel, Star Wars could be joining you on that new calendar schedule
As you may have heard over the weekend, Disney made significant changes to seven of Marvel’s TV shows, even renaming Agatha: Coven of Chaos to Agatha: Darkhold Diaries in the process. Understandably, there’s now concern that the Mouse House might do the same thing to Star Wars, and it just so happens that Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is at the center of the conversation. Nothing has been confirmed yet, but it’s not hard to imagine Disney ripping off the galactic bandaid eventually, especially as it aims to scale back its serialized content.
That’s all we have for you today. If you are one of the millions of paying Spectrum customers lost at sea with nothing to watch today, know that you have a Sicilian guardian angel in your corner, furiously wagging her finger at Disney. See you back here tomorrow.
More Stories by Alex. Charter CEO Chris Winfrey Courtesy of Charter Communications. Charter Communications, the cable giant that owns the Spectrum TV brand, lost 320,000 video customers in Q3, disclosing the impact of the company's high-profile carriage dispute with The Walt Disney Co.
Charter argues that it's paying high premiums for Disney content, but most of the best programs exist on platforms like Disney+ and not the cable channels. The dispute led to ESPN and other Disney-owned channels being taken off the air for Charter's 15 million Spectrum subscribers over the holiday weekend.
Disney And Spectrum Reach Carriage Agreement, Ending Epic 10-Day Impasse In Time For 'Monday Night Football'; Eight Networks To Remain Dark In Deal Touted As “Innovative Model For The Future” – Update.
All of this comes after a cascade of customer concerns over Spectrum's business practices, including recent cost increases and altered channel programming for Rochester-area residents, both announced in January, and September's dispute with Disney.
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Spectrum customers will no longer get access to Baby TV, Disney Junior, Disney XD, Freeform, FXM, FXX, Nat Geo Wild and Nat Geo Mundo under the deal announced Monday. As part of the new deal, customers will be able to purchase Disney+, Hulu or The Disney Bundle directly through Charter.
The Disney Channel, once a cornerstone of the company's influence on children that was a top 10 network in 2014, has seen its viewership plummet to a mere 132,000 average daily primetime watchers in 2023.
Why is ESPN not on Spectrum? The Walt Disney Co. removed its programming, which includes ESPN, ABC, FX, Freeform and other channels, from Spectrum after the two companies failed to reach a deal over the price Spectrum pays for programming, the cable provider said Thursday.
In September 2021, it closed Fox, Fox Crime, Fox Life, FX, and Channel V; movie channels Fox Action Movies, Fox Family Movies, Fox Movies and Star Movies China; sports channels Fox Sports, Fox Sports 2, Fox Sports 3, Star Sports 1, Star Sports 2; kids channel Disney Channel and Disney Junior; factual services Nat Geo ...
Disney has pulled its channels from Spectrum amid a dispute over terms. Editors' Note: Disney and Charter on Sept. 11 reached a multiyear agreement, ending the carriage dispute. The deal restored Disney channels, including ESPN and ABC, for Spectrum TV subscribers.
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Spectrum customers are starting to hit the cancel button. Charter Communications (CHTR) , the parent company of Spectrum, has just revealed that it has lost 72,000 internet customers and 405,000 cable TV customers during the first quarter of 2024.
The number of Disney+ subscribers has fallen from a high of 164.2 million in September 2022 to 149.6 million at the end of last year whereas Netflix has almost double that at 260 million.
The Disney Channel was extremely popular during my younger years, with its peak number of viewers in the US being 1.96 million in 2014 (Statista). However, from 2014-2020, the number of viewers dropped to 360,000, losing about 88.1% of the audience (Statista).
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