and today all those cablevision customers are now seeing this. >> we have spent countless hours and meetings with abc executives and have made numerous offers. in fact, we offered to pay abc as much or more than what we pay other broadcast networks in the area. >> now both sides issued dueling statements, each blaming the other guy on the heels of one of the biggest nights in tv the oscars. the walt disney cable cablevision charges customers $18 a month for basic broadcast signals but doesn't pass on any of the profit for abc programming to them. a statement released by the president and general manager of wabctv reads cablevision pocketed almost $8 billion last year and now customers aren't getting what they pay for -- again. cablevision argues that it pays more than $200 million a year to disney nor abc programming and that disney is demanding 40 million nor retransmission consent fees. many high ranking government