NEW YORK (AP) — Disney+ and Hulu subscription cancellations rose during the month that ABC briefly cancelled “Jimmy Kimmel Live!, ” according to data from subscription analytics company Antenna.

Walt Disney Co. owns the streaming platforms and ABC. ABC pulled the show off the air for less than a week in September in the wake of criticism over his comments related the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

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Antenna estimates total cancellations in September were 4.1 million for Hulu and 3 million for Disney+. The “churn rate,” or the percentage of customers that cancel their subscriptions in a specific month, jumped from 5% in August to 10% in September for Hulu. That figure jumped 4% in August to 8% in September for Disney+.

However, signups were higher in September for both Hulu and Disney+ than the prior five months.

Antenna is a subscription analytics company that tracks U.S. consumer data. The data excludes subscribers in bundle deals.

In its most recent earnings report for the quarter ended June 28, Disney reported 183 million Disney+ and Hulu subscriptions.

Disney declined to comment.

NEW YORK – Despite his average size and his unrelenting willingness to play a net-front game for the Minnesota Wild, center Marco Rossi had not missed a game due to injury for two full seasons entering the 2025-26 campaign.

That iron man streak came to a halt after Rossi blocked a shot in the first period of the Wild’s 2-1 overtime loss in Philadelphia on Saturday. He was not on the ice for the team’s morning skate at Madison Square Garden on Monday, and coach John Hynes confirmed that Rossi was out with a lower body injury.

“He’s a tough kid. Hopefully it should just be day to day,” Hynes said. “I just think the quick turnarounds and things like that are difficult for him. But I know when a guy like him says, ‘I can’t play,’ then you know there’s something really bothering him.”

Rossi kept playing versus the Flyers, despite limping to the bench in obvious pain after more than one shift. He turned 24 last month, and has a goal and four assists in the Wild’s first six games.

Defenseman Zach Bogosian also missed morning skate and missed his second consecutive game on Monday, also dealing with a lower body injury that the Wild consider day to day.

Bright lights, big city

Wild backup goalie Jesper Wallstedt came to New York City once as a teenager, but only for a day. So when the team got a day off in Manhattan on Sunday, the native Swede took advantage of the chance to explore America’s largest metro area.

Wallstedt is a fan of YouTube videos showing shrewd traders buying and selling high-end watches – some of them valued at $15,000 or more – in the Diamond District, located on 47th Street, not far from Times Square. Wallstedt’s first stop was there, to experience the high-pressure salespeople eager to get your business buying and selling. He spent some time window shopping, but he was not a buyer.

During Monday’s morning skate at Madison Square Garden, which is billed as the World’s Most Famous Arena, rookie defenseman Zeev Buium was all smiles and admitted playing a road game versus the Rangers for the first time is an exciting career milestone.

“You see all the historic people that have been here and they’ve got pictures of everyone, so it’s pretty cool,” Buium admitted, thinking of all of the famous athletes and performers who have gotten ready for a game, or a show, in the backstage areas of the arena. “Our video room for the penalty kill and power plays, and the room where we get changed, those walls have definitely seen some things. It’s a cool building, and to be here, just a really cool setting.”

Before coming to the NHL level, Buium played in a World Juniors gold medal game and a NCAA title game, winning both. He said you are able to block out the noise of the setting and just play hockey, but you are always aware of the magnitude.

“You always kind of know the stakes of the game, and every game matters,” he said. “When you play in big games a lot, I think it just kind of settles your nerves.”

Buium had a goal and four assists in the Wild’s first six games, playing a quarterback role on the team’s first power play.

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It seems highly unlikely that J.J. McCarthy is going to start at quarterback when the Vikings play the Los Angeles Chargers on Thursday night at SoFi Stadium. The quick turnaround doesn’t exactly lend itself to him being ready.

After recently returning to practice as he works his way back from a high ankle sprain, McCarthy himself admitted he still isn’t 100 percent. He was a limited participant last week, and in under normal circumstances might have been a full participant this week. But there probably isn’t proper preparation time for the Vikings to feel comfortable throwing him out there.

So long as Carson Wentz can get his body turned over in time, he will in all likelihood be leading the Vikings in primetime. As soon as McCarthy is 100 percent, however, there needs to be an immediate change under center — and not necessarily because McCarthy gives the Vikings the best chance to win.

That distinction might still belong to Wentz, despite the fact his starts have resembled a trip to Valleyfair.

No, it has to be McCarthy, for better or for worse, because the Vikings must find out if he is who they think he is. They chose not to sign Sam Darnold this spring, or Aaron Rodgers this summer, because they believed McCarthy would hit the ground running this fall.

Even if the decision is looking more and more like a miscalculation, the sample size for McCarthy hasn’t been nearly big enough to make any sweeping declarations about the trajectory of his career. He deserves much more than a couple of starts to determine whether he’s worthy of being the face of the franchise.

The process of McCarthy gaining valuable experience can happen sooner rather than later with the Vikings no longer looking the part of a Super Bowl contender.

Although McCarthy occasionally looked overwhelmed in the season-opening win at Chicago, and a week later in a 22-6 loss to the Atlanta Falcons, his extended absence has proven issues holding the Vikings back go far beyond having a young signal caller at the helm.

The roster simply isn’t as good as everybody thought it would be, and while there’s a chance Darnold or Rodgers could’ve masked the problems in real time, Wentz hasn’t been capable of doing that.

There might have been a legitimate quarterback controversy had Wentz been lights-out while filling in. Instead, he has looked more like a journeyman backup, which has been his role for the past several years of his career.

In wins over Cincinnati and Cleveland, and losses to Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Wentz has at times looked like a veteran in control, and at others like a guy who wasn’t in the team’s plans until September.

Those ups and downs make life easier for head coach Kevin O’Connell moving forward. It shouldn’t be a hard decision to go back to McCarthy whenever he’s ready to return. Not anymore.

There was an argument to be made, even last month, that winning should take precedence over McCarthy’s development. That logic no longer applies after the Vikings have shown themselves to be flawed in other areas.

Who cares if McCarthy might actually lower the floor in the present? The rest of this season should be rooted in figuring out if McCarthy can raise the ceiling in the future.

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NEVIS, Minn. — A trick-or-treating enthusiast from Nevis, Minn., said a bulk candy delivery worth over $5,000 and weighing about 100 pounds disappeared off his front steps.

For about five years, Mike Wade said he has ordered enough candy to give out “five handfuls” to each child on Halloween in this community located in Hubbard County in northern Minnesota.

On the big night, Wade said he keeps buckets and buckets of candy on hand to give to the “madhouse” of kids who descend on his house. He said if kids’ pumpkin bags are too small to carry their candy allotment, he’ll put the pumpkins in a plastic bag with the goods.

“The whole lawn and driveway and everything will be full of kids,” Wade said. “Even the high schoolers come.”

Wade, who is a veteran, said he has PTSD and struggles in crowds, so he takes medication to prepare for trick-or-treating.

“I want kids to enjoy Halloween the way that I enjoyed it when I was a kid,” Wade said.

Shannon Frazier runs a day care in Nevis and said she brings the kids she watches to Wade’s house for a “pre-Halloween” to practice trick-or-treating.

“We look forward to doing it every year,” Frazier said.

To prepare, Wade starts bulk ordering candy from retailers such as Amazon and Walmart weeks in advance.

He said his massive, missing Amazon order was supposed to arrive sometime before Oct. 11, but he had to take several day-long trips away from home.

Mike Wade shows a receipt from part of one of his Halloween candy orders showing a wide variety of sweets from Tootsie Pops to Lifesavers to Twix. (Alex Haddon / Parks Rapid Enterprise / Forum News Service)

“I thought, ‘You know, I should have gotten my candy today because they said it was coming,’” he said. “It wasn’t there and I didn’t think anything of it.”

That weekend he said he noticed an email from Amazon stating his candy had been delivered, with a picture of the boxes on his doorstep attached.

“So, I called the number and I said, ‘It says my candy’s been delivered, but I didn’t get the candy,’” Wade said. “They said, ‘Yeah, it was delivered. Because it was so much we had to send it in a special van.’”

He said the Amazon representative said the candy must have been stolen after it was delivered. Wade said he was frustrated. Amazon representatives said they couldn’t cover the cost of the delivery, he said. He reported the possible theft to UPS, who opened an investigation, but couldn’t cover the cost, he said.

Wade didn’t file a police report. Finally, his credit card company told him it would be able to refund the money, he said.

Mike Wade has about eight boxes of bulk candy stashed in his laundry room, but said he needs to order more before Halloween. (Alex Haddon / Park Rapids Enterprise / Forum News Service)

“Now, I have to wait for them to get the money into my account,” Wade said. “But I went ahead and ordered another shipment of candy already.”

On Tuesday, Oct. 16, Wade had about eight boxes filled with bags of candy stashed in his laundry room, with more on the way. He said he was pretty sure he’d be able to stock up enough mini Snickers, Butterfingers and Milky Way bars before Halloween.

Wade said it “boggled his mind” that someone would take his candy delivery.

“Everybody knows around here that I get that candy every year,” he said. “That candy is for the kids. They’re not stealing from me. They’re stealing from the kids.”

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