By Greg Evans
01.05.2020 - 16:53 / deadline.com
By Jill Goldsmith
Charter CEO Tom Rutledge sports makes up more than half of the wholesale price of its cable bundle and while the company would like customers to be made whole while sports is dark, “Now we have a structure where its all bundled together and tied together contractually and we have very little control over it.”
“Ultimately it’s the athletes who are getting the money and … someone has to give up their money and give it back to the consumer and that has not happened yet.”
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By Anthony D'Alessandro
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The band's original singer and guitarist quit in 2015
We are loving everything about the comeback of Kesha. From the singer’s viral release of “Tik Tok” over 10 years ago to her song “Cannibal” creating viral dances on the TikTok app in the present, her star power is stronger than ever. We even caught her sharing her musical expertise as a judge on The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart just a couple of weeks ago. Bring on the Kesha!
Cable operator Charter Communications, in which John Malone's Liberty Broadband owns a big stake, would love to see financial relief for its subscribers for sports events that have been canceled amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Charter chairman and CEO Tom Rutledge on the company's Friday first-quarter earnings conference call said that he and his team have talked "for years about the reality of programming costs and how sports drives" most of them.
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By Jill Goldsmith
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By Manori Ravindran
Tom Selleck is happy to live out of the public eye.