One of the more unusual things to come out of the retransmission consent dispute between Time Warner Cable and Hearst Television has been the use of some of Nexstar Broadcasting's stations to fill the void in the lineup in places like Louisville, where Rochester, N.Y. CBS affiliate WROC has replaced WLKY, and in Cincinnati, where Terre Haute's WTWO-NBC 2 has taken over for WLWT.
As I told you yesterday, Nexstar folks are none too thrilled about that, and neither, it turns out, are the other Cincinnati TV stations.
On Wednesday, after getting a complaint from WSTR, the MyNetwork TV affiliate, that WTWO was broadcasting Divorce Court and The People's Court, shows which WSTR has the right to air in Cincinnati, TWC was forced to black out WTWO during those programs. Now they've had to also black out the channel during 30 Rock at 4:30 p.m., because Raycom's Fox affiliate, WXIX, also carries that show.
Cincinnati.com's John Kiesewetter, in a column published today, wonders how long it'll be before WCPO (the Scripps-owned ABC affiliate) tells TWC to black out WTWO's airings of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy as well.
It probably won't be long.
EDITOR'S NOTE: WTWO is blacked out during the above-mentioned programming only in the Cincinnati area. Those watching the station in the Terre Haute market and the northern part of the Tri-State are not affected.
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