BRIEF: Cox subscribers' long wait for ABC shows on HD ends

Sep 27, 2007 (Omaha World-Herald - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- COX | charts | news | PowerRating -- An agreement reached Wednesday allowed KETV high-definition programming to return to Cox Communications' digital package.

KETV-HD is now available on Cox digital channel 806.

Hearst-Argyle, the parent company for Omaha's ABC affiliate KETV, and Cox Communications reached an agreement on how much Cox will pay to broadcast the ABC programming.

Hearst-Argyle pulled KETV's high-definition programming from Cox a year ago. Hearst-Argyle had threatened to pull the standard feed, too, if an agreement was not reached by Sunday.

Sarah Smith, president and general manager of KETV, said terms were not available.

"The agreement was reached between Hearst-Argyle Inc., which is based in New York, and Cox Communications of Atlanta, so I am not sure that I will ever know what the terms are," she said.

Cox Communications is the cable provider for 208,000 Omaha-area homes.

Two weeks ago the parties agreed to air the Nebraska-USC and Michigan-Notre Dame football games in HD.

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