Blog: Tribune TV stations, including KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles, blacked out on Charter Spectrum service – Los Angeles Times

Last weekend, Walt Disney Co. and Verizon reached a comprehensive distribution deal that averted an ESPN blackout for 4.6 million Verizon FiOS customers in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. As part of that multiyear agreement, Verizon secured the right to carry programming from the Disney-owned WABC station in New York, Philadelphia’s WPVI station, Disney Channel, the ESPN channels, including ESPN Deportes, and the SEC Network, Longhorn Network and the sports ACC Network when it debuts in August.