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NEW: Disney and Charter have reached a last-minute distribution deal to avert a blackout of "Monday Night Football" on ESPN for nearly 15 million Charter Spectrum customers. https://t.co/8Afo18OBmJ
Disney, Charter reach 11th-hour deal to avoid "Monday Night Football" blackout

If the dispute wasn't resolved, it would have marked the beginning of the end of cable.

Axios
Sep 11, 2023 at 4:37pmIFTTT
Show threadJohn Watson 🇺🇸🇨🇦Sep 11, 2023
@axios Good news, I think…
Show threadPeter GSep 11, 2023
@axios Yet another reason for the sports leagues to stop making deals with cable and media companies and stream from their own subscriptions without any restrictions.
Show threadCatherine McCarthySep 11, 2023
@axios Interesting news. As a Charter Spectrum customer, was very disappointed to lose ESPN, along with other fav channels, with zero notice at all. And their on-screen explanation was a total diss on Disney...claiming Disney was being unreasonable. Charter may have scrambled to avoid a massive wave of customers leaving them by reaching an agreement in time for MNF, but they completely whiffed and left us hanging with no coverage of the US Open. #CharterSucks
#SpectrumSucks