Awful Announcing
Charter's decision to join Comcast's streaming device/smart TV project rather than do their own gives the combined venture significant scale, and perhaps paves the way for some eventual OTT service bundling deals.
Pay TV subscriptions fell by record-setting 1.8 million in the first quarter of 2020, according to a new report.
The ACC Network's current announced deals only cover about 20 million homes, although more are expected by launch. But there are still some big holdouts, including Comcast, Dish, and Charter.
This may help alleviate some of the immediate worries about the RSNs' future carriage under Sinclair.
"Charter's conduct risks effectively excluding BIG3 from the bidding process and tainting the auction. It has been suggested to BIG3's ownership that Charter has disseminated its threat to drop the (regional sports networks) to other members of the industry."
ESPN hopes fans will force providers like Comcast and Charter to pick up the ACC Network. We shall see
The latest Charter fee hike has many unhappy.
Charter (doing business in New York as Spectrum) is the biggest cable provider in the state, with over 2 million subscribers across cable/internet/phone.
If Disney sells the Fox RSNs separately, that might get even more players involved in the bidding.
Three of the biggest providers saw significant subscriber losses in Q3 of 2017.
