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- Disney's Bob Iger is going head-to-head with "cable cowboy" John Malone in a tussle about payments.
- Charter Communications stopped offering Disney-owned channels after the company rejected a new contract.
- Iger has floated the idea of selling Disney's television broadcast assets.
Writers and actors are on strike, his streaming platform is losing buckets of cash, and now Disney CEO Bob Iger has another headache to contend with — a battle with Charter Communications director emeritus, John Malone, who is nicknamed the cable cowboy.