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scrambled Sunday to find alternative ways to watch the Oscars, with many vowing to boycott both the cable company and ABC #xfor leaving viewers in the lurch.

Mason Woodford, a sales associate at a Radio Shack in Patchogue on Long Island, said the store’s phone had been ringing all day with people calling in search of over-the-air antennas. “People keep calling and asking, ‘Do you have anything that can help me get Channel 7?’ ” he said. But the callers were out of luck – to get WABC’s signal on Long Island, viewers would need outdoor antennas with a 60-mile range. Woodford’s store had three this morning, which quickly sold out.

“They’re normally not in demand,” he said. “Now I guess we need them.”

read with alarm last week the reports of the standoff between the cable operator and Disney. “I can’t believe there’s no middle ground,” he said. “I don’t see anything in terms of negotiations going on as much as the two sides taking very public potshots at each other, and I don’t think that helps.”

He planned to hook up his Macbook to his television to live stream the Oscars show Sunday night. “I want to be able to get as large of a picture as I can,” said Cohen, a mystery writer who was looking forward to watching the show with his wife and 17-year-old daughter. “It’s kind of a family thing we do every year. We’re all big movie fans.”

So Cohen was taken aback to hear that the show would not be streamed live on the Web. “This throws me for a bit of a loop — too late to do anything else,” he said. “I guess we’ll watch a movie and read about it on the Web. But this really puts me over the edge with Cablevision and ABC. They won’t get my business back now#x.”

, was disgusted that she and other Cablevision customers will miss out on the Oscars.

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