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Charter Spectrum‘s move to merge the worlds of cable TV and streaming continues, as a new carriage deal with TelevisaUnivision bolsters a strategy kicked off with The Walt Disney Co. last year.
Spectrum and TelevisaUnivision have cut a new multi-year carriage deal, one that will bundle TelevisaUnivision’s ViX Premium with Ads service in Spectrum’s Spectrum TV Select or Mi Plan Latino packages.
The deal is part of what Charter Spectrum calls its “new distribution framework,” in which it seeks to bundle linear TV offerings with streaming.
The strategy began with a landmark deal with Disney last year. Following an extended blackout of Disney’s TV channels (including ESPN and ABC), the company agreed to a deal that saw Disney’s core channels remain on Charter’s pay-TV offering, some…
