It looks like KETV-7's parent company, Hearst-Argyle Television, and Cox Comunications came to an agreement that will allow Cox to carry Omaha-based KETV's HD and analog signals. Here's a press release on the announcement. We'll have more on this in coming days on the blog and in the City Weekly newspaper.
HEARST-ARGYLE TELEVISION (Parent Company of KETV) AND COX COMMUNICATIONS SIGN RETRANSMISSION CONSENT AGREEMENT FOR SIX TV MARKETS INCLUDING OMAHA.
NEW YORK, N.Y., September 26, 2007 – Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. (NYSE: HTV), parent of [STATION(S)] today announced an agreement providing retransmission consent for carriage over Cox Communications cable systems of the digital and analog signals of Hearst-Argyle’s television stations WESH-TV and WKCF-TV, Orlando; KMBC-TV, Kansas City, Missouri; KOCO-TV, Oklahoma City; WDSU-TV, New Orleans; KETV, Omaha; and KHBS-TV/KHOG-TV, Fort Smith/Fayetteville, Arkansas. The agreement includes carriage of the high-definition digital (HDTV) signals and carriage of digital multicast programming as well as continued carriage of the stations’ analog signals.
WESH and WDSU are NBC affiliates; WKCF is a CW affiliate; the others are ABC affiliates.
“We’re pleased to have our digital signal back on the Cox system and to be able to provide our award-winning local programs and our network programming to our valued viewers who are Cox subscribers,” said Sarah Smith of KETV.
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