Disney and Mediacom Communications Announce Distribution Deal

Mediacom Communications Corporation and The Walt Disney Company today announced a comprehensive distribution agreement to deliver Disney’s robust lineup of sports, news and entertainment content to Mediacom customers across televisions, computers, smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles and connected devices. The multi-year renewal agreement supports the companies’ mutual goal to enhance the customer experience by delivering video content to viewers across multiple platforms.

As part of the new multi-year deal, Mediacom will introduce several new services, including the full suite of authenticated WATCH and video-on-demand products, SEC Network, ESPN Goal Line and ESPN Buzzer Beater.  Continuing services covered by the broad scope of this agreement include: ABC Family, Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Disney XD, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN Deportes, ESPNEWS, ESPN Classic, ESPN3, Fusion and retransmission consent for ABC Owned stations.

Mediacom customers will receive broad access to existing authenticated products like WATCH ABC, WATCH ABC Family, WATCH Disney Channel, WATCH Disney Junior, WATCH Disney XD and WatchESPN (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPNU, SEC Network, ESPN Goal Line and ESPN Buzzer Beater). These products will give Mediacom customers more opportunities to access live and video-on-demand content, both in-home and out-of-home, on their computers, smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles and connected devices via Mediacom’s TV Everywhere platform.  ESPN3 will also continue to be available to residential Mediacom High Speed Internet customers across screens and devices.