Football fans subscribed to Charter Spectrum's cable TV can't watch ESPN's NFL coverage due to a dispute with Disney that saw more than two dozen Disney-owned channels yanked from the service. Here to explain how this carriage dispute could actually threaten the future of cable TV is NPR TV critic Eric Deggans. So companies like Disney are forced into beefing up these streaming platforms where they might make less money, which degrades the cable systems where they used to make a lot of money.