A major cable company tells Disney it's not me, it's you.

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I'm Ricky Mulvey joined today by Jim Gillies.

I am excited for the show we have coming up because today you are fired up.

I'm fired up Ricky, but yeah, today I think you selected the stories deliberately to

provoke an old man's show to cloud so might as well do this.

The first one is the battle between charter communications and Disney.

If you are one of the 15 million paid TV subscribers, you cannot watch Disney networks

on linear television.

That means ESPN.

Jim, this beef is a little bit different than the traditional carriage rights disputes

where one company wants a little bit more money, one company wants a little bit less money

to set the table.

What does charter want from Disney?

Well, charter wants to pay less.

They would like to, I think charter would like to go back about 20 years and maybe do some

other renegotiations, but yeah, no, everyone is fighting over table scraps at this point

because the traditional cable model, which I assert has been dead for at least a decade

and a half, and we've just been watching the cable companies fight over the declining

scraps.

The streaming services, for a consumer perspective, a one-on-one online, for a consumer

perspective, have never been better.

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