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Charter and Disney giving dueling offers to online streaming services for Spectrum customers

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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I hate the language here. All corpo speak is stupid but this is terrible.
"Big bad Disney is being mean to us". Granted I also hate Disney, so let's just drop the pretense spectrum. "We're negotiating on how much we should screw you over"
🦜 yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me
Spectrum: Our customers are paying too much!
Disney: Your customers are paying exactly what they should!
Spectrum and Disney: OK, we have a solution. Everyone should pay an additional $70 per month
- 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."