New York Knicks and Rangers fans are well-acquainted with heartbreak and frustration, with their teams decades removed from their most recent championships. But a new kind of headache began on New Year’s Day, one having nothing to do with holiday champagne. The teams’ regional sports outlet, MSG…

Sunday’s Emmy Awards will take place nearly two weeks after 16 Disney networks went dark on DirecTV due to a carriage dispute between the companies. Barring a resolution before the show, the unavailability of ABC for 11 million DirecTV subscribers (a healthy number of them in the L.A. market) will…

As the carriage battle between Disney and DirecTV nears the one-week mark, the premiere of Monday Night Football is looming as a potential game-changer. Disney began notifying viewers Friday of distribution alternatives. “Hey, DirecTV subscribers! Missing your favorite ABC and ESPN programming?” the…

After DirecTV had its say Tuesday in an hour-long conference call with Wall Street analysts, Disney hit back at the pay-TV operator as the companies’ carriage impasse enters its fourth day. “DirecTV continues to misrepresent the facts around our ongoing negotiations,” Disney said in a statement from…

DirecTV CFO Ray Carpenter says the pay-TV bundle should have between 10 and 50 of the “most engaging” channels, a fraction of the “hundreds” of offerings crammed into “bloated,” high-priced packages. Smaller bundles would be “much more reflective of what customers watch,” he said Tuesday during a…

Disney’s networks, including ABC and ESPN, have gone dark across DirecTV, beginning another major carriage impasse in the challenged pay-TV business. The dispute between the companies had been intensifying in recent days despite the parties being at the table negotiating ahead of Sunday’s expiration…

Fubo, which has not carried nearly a dozen networks from the Warner side of Warner Bros. Discovery since 2020, added a batch of Discovery channels to the blacked-out list on Tuesday. The internet-delivered pay-TV operator, which has nearly 1.7 million subscribers, reached an impasse with the former…

Nearly three months after Charter Communications and Disney struck a landmark distribution deal, Charter CFO Jessica Fischer said it “absolutely” has created a template for future agreements. “We're not willing to make our customers pay twice for content,” the exec said during an appearance at the…

Dozens of local TV stations owned by Tegna, most of them NBC and CBS affiliates, have gone dark on DirecTV in a carriage dispute. The companies failed to reach an agreement before a 5 p.m. PT deadline Thursday. The outage will immediately affect roughly 5 million customers in markets across the U.S…

UPDATED with formal agreement. A week after Charter and Disney made peace on the distribution front, DirecTV and Nexstar have set a multi-year carriage renewal, ending a dispute that started in early July. The agreement was announced this morning in a brief joint press release, with the companies…

Tom Carter, a longtime former Nexstar exec who is now a senior advisor to the CEO and board of directors, says the company could acquire Disney’s local ABC TV stations with “little friction” if they become available. Disney CEO Bob Iger spurred talk of a potential sale of the eight stations over the…

UPDATED WITH details and company comment. Disney and Charter Communications have reached a carriage renewal, ending a 10-day impasse that drew intense scrutiny to the shifting economics of pay-TV in the streaming era. The agreement preserves carriage on Charter’s Spectrum systems for 19 cable…