Disney-Time Warner Cable dispute “a classic game of chicken” over worth of ESPN
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Aug. 26, 2010 11:01 a.m.
"Although consumers are seldom asked to contemplate the specific value within their monthly cable package, a dispute between Disney and Time Warner Cable hinges in part on this question: What’s ESPN really worth to you?" Brian Lowry writes, adding, "The two companies are engaged in a classic game of chicken, building toward a September 2 deadline. Such skirmishes are almost invariably settled at the 11th hour, although the last major one — pitting ABC against Cablevision — wasn’t resolved before blacking out the first 13 minutes of the Academy Awards telecast in New York."
August 26th, 2010 at 8:55 am
Does this mean no away games or any other Big 10, MNF games?? Does Time Warner not think they are going to lose all of their customers? I'm dropping them NOW for being so ridiculous to think their customers won't be extremely upset and leave.