Spectrum users in KC will be able to watch ‘Monday Night Football’ games for a while

Bears and Steelers fans in Kansas City with U-Verse or DirecTV caught a break Sunday.

The dispute between Fox and those carriers has been going on since July. That meant viewers with DirecTV or U-Verse in KC weren’t able to watch Fox 4’s NFL doubleheader Sunday, which featured San Francisco thumping Pittsburgh and Green Bay once again routing Chicago.

Sports fans with Spectrum cable have been affected by a different standoff. This one is between Disney (which owns ESPN) and Charter Communications (Spectrum’s parent company).

Fortunately for NFL fans in Kansas City, they won’t miss the first “Monday Night Football” contest of the season.

The Bills-Jets game already was scheduled to air on ABC (KMBC Ch. 9 in Kansas City), as well as ESPN, and the it kicks off at 7:15 p.m. Unfortunately, the “ManningCast” won’t be available to Spectrum users because it airs ESPN2.

ABC is scheduled to broadcast “Monday Night Football” games throughout September.

In Week 2, there are two games on Monday. The Saints-Panthers contest starts at 6:15 p.m. and airs on ESPN, while the Browns-Steelers game will be available on ABC. It starts at 7:15 p.m.

The following week, the Buccaneers-Eagles game on “Monday Night Football” will be on ABC and has a 6:15 p.m. kickoff. That’s part of another doubleheader with the Rams-Bengals game starting at 7:15 p.m. and airing on ESPN.

After that, there will be single “Monday Night Football” games for a while and they will air on ESPN.

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Spectrum is offering a special offer from its “preferred streaming TV partner,” FuboTV. It’s a seven-day free trial.

Fubo also is offering 25% off for two months. After that, it’ll cost at least $75 a month.

“We all have a sense of urgency to resolve it quickly because our customers are stuck in the middle,” Charter CEO Chris Winfrey said on an investor conference last week, per Yahoo. “These are not just our customers, these are Disney customers as well and so we have a responsibility to try to solve it quickly.”

However, Winfrey added: “We’ve always thought about the video business as being an asset to our broadband connectivity business. And I think it’s on the verge of flipping and where it’s becoming a liability.”

That’s not the only reason to believe the Disney-Charter fight could continue.

Dylan Byers shared on X (nee Twitter) that Winfrey also said, “an environment where we no longer carry Disney content ... is becoming more and more of a potential reality.”