Charter, Univision Agree to Temporary End to Blackout
Charter Communications and Univision tentatively worked out terms for Univision's programming to remain on Charter during their contract fight in New York Supreme Court, said a stipulation and proposed order filed Tuesday in the Manhattan court. Univision would continue to…
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provide its signals through the determinations of motions for summary judgment, with the multichannel video programming distributor having a March 17 deadline for answering Univision's declaratory judgment claim and filing its own. The court granted Charter a temporary restraining order last month stopping a blackout (see 1702020072). The stipulation also says Charter will withdraw without prejudice its pending motion to dismiss some counts in Univision's claim (see 1610310062), to be refiled after determination of summary judgment motions due May 25 on liability. Charter within a week of its entry would post a $50 million bond covering March 1 through whenever the summary judgment motions are decided. The companies disagree which legacy programming contract, Charter's or Time Warner Cable's, survived Charter buying TWC in 2016 (see 1607080022). Fox News network is pursuing a similar complaint (see 1607200065).