ESPN, ABC, Disney-owned channels go dark for Charter Spectrum cable subscribers amid dispute

FILE - In this photo illustration the Charter Spectrum logo seen on a smartphone. (Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Channels owned by the Walt Disney Co. such as ESPN, Disney Channel and others went dark Thursday afternoon for those who own Charter Spectrum cable.
At 5 p.m. PT, Disney pulled approximately 27 channels amid an ongoing carrier dispute with Charter Communications, which runs Spectrum.
Customers lost access to programming from ABC-owned TV stations, Disney-branded channels such as Freeform and FX and the National Geographic channels.
Charter is the country’s second-largest cable TV provider with nearly 15 million subscribers, according to USA Today.