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Walt Disney Co., which blocked some viewers from the first 13 minutes of the Oscars on Sunday night amid a dispute with Cablevision Systems, may be about to do it again with bigger cable operators, analysts said.
Disney restored the WABC-TV signal after the Academy Awards show began Sunday night. Disney may repeat the maneuver if it can’t reach a deal with Time Warner Cable once their agreement ends in August, according to Wunderlich Securities analyst Matthew Harrigan. Time Warner has already put its 13 million viewers on alert.
Comcast, whose contract for ABC isn’t up this year, faces off with CBS at the end of 2010. Bloomberg News
