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With the ink still drying on a closely tracked carriage renewal with Charter, Disney execs Dana Walden and Jimmy Pitaro told Deadline in an interview that the agreement’s details suit the current streaming/linear hybrid environment.
The companies announced the settlement earlier today, a bit more than 10 days after their initial clash left 27 networks and ABC stations dark for the 14.7 million subscribers to the No. 2 U.S. cable system. The impasse ended just hours before the regular-season kickoff of Monday Night Football, a highly anticipated matchup between the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills.
While financial terms were not divulged, the main deal points had various puts and takes for both sides. Charter gains the right to take a wholesale fee in exchange for offering the ad-supported tier of Disney+ to its estimated 9.5 million Select video subscribers. It also will carry only a “curated” selection of networks, with Freeform, FXX and several other established outlets left without distribution on Spectrum, meaning a lower overall bill for programming. Disney, though, is getting Charter’s distribution muscle to help push its entire DTC portfolio on both a bundled and stand-alone basis, as well as the inclusion of ESPN+ with Charter’s Spectrum TV Select Plus package. And it is understood that the nine ESPN networks at the heart of the dispute secured not only rate increases but penetration minimums, both sticking points earlier in the rift.
Overall, the deal is “indicative of the times that we’re in,” summed up Walden, Co-Chair of Disney Entertainment. Asked about what the slimming-down of the Disney linear portfolio on Spectrum means for traditional networks in the future, she said, “We were prepared to be flexible
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OK, so there was one good deal point –one– to come out of the AMPTP talks with the WGA, as SAG-AFTRA National Executive director and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland admitted at TIFF today: It was the streamer’s transparency on viewership numbers.
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“I don’t know that much in particular about this dispute, but it feels like this is a moment,” said Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav about the current showdown between big cable provider Charter and the Disney.
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