No Oscars Tonight For New Yorkers? Cablevision and Disney Yet To Strike Deal

By now you may have heard that Cablevision may be unable to show the Oscar broadcast, after a fight between the television provider and The Walt Disney Company fell through. Which might not be so big of a deal, except that um, Disney has WABC, the station that showcases the Academy Awards.

According to The New York Times:

It is possible that the companies will still reach a deal before the Academy Awards show at 8 p.m., although it is impossible to determine how likely that outcome is. The outright removal of a popular channel like ABC is rare, but not unprecedented.

If not, what are your alternatives? Well, like the Winter Olympics and NBC you could always find an Internet pirating site that will stream the Broadcast…but we can’t tell you how to get that. We don’t want to get in trouble. We’re just saying, it’s an option.

The fight is reminiscent of the one between Google and The Associated Press, which also threatened to pull content from the large aggregator recently. Then again, millions of people weren’t relying on Google to watch one of the biggest telecasts of the year tonight. Disney certainly has all of the bargaining leverage in this deal, but if it falls through, New Yorkers will have no love for the conglomerate.

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