Disney Fights, the NFL Wins
null By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.Sept. 12, 2023 6:10 pm ETWith streaming disrupting the economics of the TV and film industries, it doesn’t help to alienate your audience with political posturing like Disney has with its refashioning of classic fairy tales including the upcoming 'Snow White.' Images: Disney/Shutterstock/Bloomberg News/Getty Images for CAA Composite: Mark KellyMonday’s settlement of the carriage dispute that blacked out Disney-owned cable channels for 14 million households in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere wasn’t as anticlimactic as some would argue. It also wasn’t as epoch-making as it might have been if cable giant Charter had been as ready as hinted to say goodbye forever to ABC, ESPN, FX and other Disney channels, initiating the final death spiral of the cable bundle. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8Continue reading your article witha WSJ subscriptionSubscribe NowAlready a subscriber? Sign InAbout th
Sept. 12, 2023 6:10 pm ET
Monday’s settlement of the carriage dispute that blacked out Disney-owned cable channels for 14 million households in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere wasn’t as anticlimactic as some would argue. It also wasn’t as epoch-making as it might have been if cable giant Charter had been as ready as hinted to say goodbye forever to ABC, ESPN, FX and other Disney channels, initiating the final death spiral of the cable bundle.
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Holman W. Jenkins Jr. is a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal. He writes the twice-weekly “Business World” column that appears on the paper's op-ed page on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Mr. Jenkins joined the Journal in May 1992 as a writer for the editorial page in New York. In February 1994, he moved to Hong Kong as editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal's editorial page. He returned to the domestic Journal in December 1995 as a member of the paper's editorial board and was based in San Francisco. Mr. Jenkins won a 1997 Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial coverage.
Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Jenkins received a bachelor's degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He was a 1991 journalism fellow at the University of Michigan.
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