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Charter and Disney giving dueling offers to online streaming services for Spectrum customers (awfulannouncing.com)

submitted 1 year ago by realcaseyrollins@kbin.projectsegfau.lt to c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film

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This weekend has been tough for Spectrum customers who lost the Disney channels including ESPN. Spectrum customers saw ESPN go dark right on August 31 as the Florida-Utah game was set to kickoff. It’s all part of a dispute between Spectrum parent company Charter Communications and Disney over subscriber fees. Charter says it doesn’t want Read more...

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[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

What Spectrum is saying: "We need to keep costs low for our customers."

What Disney is saying: "We need more money to produce better quality content."

What Spectrum means: "We want to pay you less money but keep charging our customers the same rate."

What Disney means: "We want you to pay us more money while we cut costs on quality and continue refusing to pay the actors and writers on strike right now."