ABC restored to 3.1M customers after Oscars begin
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Cablevision's 3.1 million subscribers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut had their access to the Academy Awards telecast restored Sunday night after the cable operator reached a deal with ABC's parent company in a dispute over fees.
A stalemate in the dispute had led ABC's parent company, the Walt Disney Co., to pull its programming from the cable operator's subscribers at midnight Saturday. The move, which imperiled viewers' access to the highly rated Oscar show broadcast, marked the first time in a decade that a major broadcast station went dark in a dispute with a cable company.
The signal was switched on at 8:43 p.m. Sunday, Cablevision said. The awards show began at 8:30 p.m.
Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger was seen in the Oscar audience, about a minute after Cablevision announced it had reached a deal to get the telecast on the air.
A spokeswoman for ABC did not immediately respond to phone or e-mail messages.
The cable operator's subscribers had been scrambling to hook up antennas or find live TV on the Internet to watch the Academy Awards after the signal was switched off.
The companies traded blame for the stalemate ahead of one of the most-watched nights of television.
A stalemate in the dispute had led ABC's parent company, the Walt Disney Co., to pull its programming from the cable operator's subscribers at midnight Saturday. The move, which imperiled viewers' access to the highly rated Oscar show broadcast, marked the first time in a decade that a major broadcast station went dark in a dispute with a cable company.
The signal was switched on at 8:43 p.m. Sunday, Cablevision said. The awards show began at 8:30 p.m.
Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger was seen in the Oscar audience, about a minute after Cablevision announced it had reached a deal to get the telecast on the air.
A spokeswoman for ABC did not immediately respond to phone or e-mail messages.
The cable operator's subscribers had been scrambling to hook up antennas or find live TV on the Internet to watch the Academy Awards after the signal was switched off.
The companies traded blame for the stalemate ahead of one of the most-watched nights of television.
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