Submitted 1 year ago by realcaseyrollins@kbin.projectsegfau.lt to moviesandtv@lemmy.film
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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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.”
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 year ago
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”