Meredith Corp. and Time Warner Cable averted a potential blackout...
Meredith Corp. and Time Warner Cable averted a potential blackout of the broadcaster’s TV stations on the operator’s systems. They signed a retransmission consent agreement lasting for the rest of this month, after a longer-term one was to have expired…
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Wednesday at 11:59 p.m., spokespeople for the companies said. The operator hopes “to finalize an agreement before” the short-term deal expires July 31, a Time Warner Cable spokeswoman said. The sides “continue to negotiate in good faith,” a Meredith spokesman said. “We're confident that we can have an agreement in place prior to the end of the extension.” A Time Warner Cable spokeswoman said it would have been affected by a blackout of Meredith stations, in Kansas City, Mo., KCTV (CBS) and KSMO (MyTV), WSMV (NBC) Nashville, Tenn., and WSHM (CBS) Springfield, Mass.