In this article:
- Disney and DirecTV remain in their separate corners as licensing talks drag on and customers are forced to go without
- Carriage disputes aren’t new — what’s new is a TV landscape that has transformed channels and customer choice
- As consumers rage over paying more for less, content offerings are now so diffuse as to make that potentially unnecessary
We’ve seen it before: a cable or satellite provider and a content provider go head-to-head over a new carriage contract. The latest such battle is between DirecTV and Disney. On Sept. 1, Disney channels went dark on DirecTV, smack in the middle of ESPN’s coverage of the U.S. Open, so customers of the satellite provider can...