Time Warner Cable and Hearst Television have reached a new retransmission contract.
The announcement of the deal came Thursday evening, and WLKY in Louisville is expected to be back on the cable system shortly, along with WLWT for those in the Cincinnati area.
In a statement, TWC/Insight spokesman Mike Hogan said, "We have reached a long-term agreement with Hearst Television and our customers can expect their signals to be restored to our cable systems shortly. We thank our customers for their patience and their willingness to stick with us through another unnecessary broadcaster blackout."
"We appreciate the support and patience of our viewers, advertisers and local communities served by our stations, and we regret the inconvenience they've experienced over the past 10 days," said Hearst Television president and CEO David Barrett. "This process has been an important step to insure the ongoing vitality of our local TV service in communities across the country."
Terms of the new agreement have not been revealed, although it should be noted that is standard industry procedure.
Hearst's stations were pulled from Time Warner Cable late on July 10. Since then, while the companies battled it out, TWC customers in Louisville had to watch CBS programming from Nexstar Broadcasting-owned WROC-8 out of Rochester, N.Y., while Cincinnati-area NBC viewers received Terre Haute's WTWO-NBC 2.
Earlier this week, Nexstar sued to block the cable company from continuing to use its signals without permission. With the conclusion of a new deal between Hearst and TWC, it would appear that the lawsuit is no longer necessary, but we'll have to wait and see.
Terms of the new agreement have not been revealed, although it should be noted that is standard industry procedure.
Hearst's stations were pulled from Time Warner Cable late on July 10. Since then, while the companies battled it out, TWC customers in Louisville had to watch CBS programming from Nexstar Broadcasting-owned WROC-8 out of Rochester, N.Y., while Cincinnati-area NBC viewers received Terre Haute's WTWO-NBC 2.
Earlier this week, Nexstar sued to block the cable company from continuing to use its signals without permission. With the conclusion of a new deal between Hearst and TWC, it would appear that the lawsuit is no longer necessary, but we'll have to wait and see.
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