Content material writer Disney has left subscribers who’re tennis fanatics not able to observe the U.S. Open on Disney-owned sports activities channel ESPN, amid its dispute with cable corporate Spectrum.
Any of Spectrum’s 15 million shoppers who’ve tried to observe the New York Town-based skilled tennis match — one in all 4 Grand Slam occasions — since Exertions Day weekend, would have encountered a blacked-out channel and message indicating that the carrier is quickly unavailable.
Disney blocked get right of entry to to ESPN programming Thursday, right through the second one spherical of the lads’s and girls’s singles occasions.
“Exertions Day weekend is historically one of the crucial largest sports activities weekends of the yr. Audience take a seat down to observe the expected go back of faculty soccer and benefit from the tennis battles on the U.S. Open,” Disney mentioned in a remark Sunday. “Sadly, for hundreds of thousands of Spectrum cable audience this has no longer been the case this vacation weekend, since ESPN and different Disney-owned channels like ABC are blacked out because of a dispute between Spectrum’s dad or mum corporate — Constitution Communications — and Disney Leisure.”
For Spectrum subscribers questioning easy methods to music in to probably the most expected tennis occasions of the yr, listed here are alternative ways to observe the U.S. Open.
How can I watch the U.S. Open?
In its remark, Disney hyperlinks to a web page known as Keepmynetworks.com informing shoppers that they are able to get right of entry to Disney networks thru pay TV suppliers competing with Spectrum in addition to impartial streaming apps.
Indexed are TV suppliers that also be offering Disney channels like ESPN, together with DirectTV, Dish and Verizon. Every calls for subscriber accounts.
Tennis fanatics too can get right of entry to ESPN thru a Hulu+ LiveTV subscription plan. The entire bundle prices $69.99 monthly.
Some other app, Fubo TV, shall we shoppers move are living sports activities, together with the U.S. Open on ESPN, with out a cable subscription, beginning at $74.99 a month. Consumers can join a seven-day loose trial, too.
DirectTV, Sling TV, and Vidgo additionally supply streaming get right of entry to to ESPN, as does YouTube TV.
Even third-seeded participant Daniil Medvedev, who reached the match’s quarterfinal spherical, mentioned he was once not able to check his combatants’ video games on TV, because of the dispute.
“As a result of I assume in numerous resorts, they have got Spectrum. So I will not watch it on TV anymore,” he mentioned right through a post-match press convention.
Medvedev mentioned he’d hotel to scoping out the contest on “pirate web pages.”
“So I’m going to watch tennis there. I haven’t any different selection,” he mentioned.