Charter Seeks Court Ruling on Univision Contractual Language
The contractual language that let Charter Communications operate legacy systems under terms of the Time Warner Cable agreement with Univision is "clear and unambiguous," and the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan should declare so, Charter said in a declaratory…
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judgment counterclaim and answer filed Friday. In its heavily redacted filing, Charter said the surviving entity of 2016's Charter/TWC was a third entity, Spectrum, which owns both legacy systems, and that Spectrum was contractually allowed to carry the legacy Charter systems under the Charter agreement and then, once that expired, under the TWC agreement. Charter said the counterclaim is related only to the March 1 stipulation and order (see 1703010002), with the company possibly bringing more counterclaims following resolution of forthcoming motions for summary judgment. Univision, pointing to a stipulation agreed to by the two companies (see 1703010002), said in a statement Monday it and Charter agreed to forego a preliminary injunction hearing and are pursuing an expedited schedule so the court can rule more quickly.