Now that streaming is becoming a trend, the global cable-TV business model is experiencing sharp conflicts. In U.S Cable giant Charter Communications and Disney are in a battle over contract fees that has left millions of people without access to the U.S. Open, college football and potentially “Monday Night Football,” with the NFL’s season starting in just days. South Korea is also expected to face a blackout as negotiations on Carriage fees for home shopping channels and cable TV are difficult.
In particular, the center of the dispute is the "sports channel" in the United States and the "home shopping channel" in Korea.
Disney in the U.S. wants to increase the carriage fee for ABC or ESPN, and Korean cable TV operators, on the contrary, want more carriage fees from home shopping.
Charter Communications, a U.S. cable TV operator, and Walt Disney Company, which owns ESPN and FX, are experiencing conflicts over carriage fees. It is a tension between the camp that needs to be recognized more and the side that it cannot be raised. Finally, Charter declared that the "business model of cable TV" has collapsed.