Archive for Thursday, January 8, 2009
Cable companies fail to reach agreement
January 8, 2009
Effective Jan. 1, Sunflower Broadband cable subscribers are no longer receiving Kansas City’s Hearst-Argyle Television Inc. stations KMBC-ABC and KCWE-CW.
During ongoing negotiations, representatives of Hearst-Argyle told Sunflower Broadband on Wednesday they would not authorize the cable operation to retransmit the KMBC and KCWE signals to subscribers after midnight, said Patrick Knorr, chief operating officer for Sunflower Broadband and The World Company, which owns the Journal-World.
“We’ve enjoyed a good relationship with KMBC,” Knorr said. “We are disappointed KMBC is choosing to deprive our customers of continuing to receive KMBC as well as depriving their advertisers of reaching those customers. Sunflower will continue to work around the clock with Hearst-Argyle to restore KMBC and KCWE under terms that are fair to our customers.”
Sunflower Broadband has reached agreements with all other Kansas City and Topeka stations that allow the cable company to carry their signals into 2009, Knorr said.
Subscribers can also get more information about the change on the company’s Web site, sunflowerbroadband.com.
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The postal service is cutting back hours at some rural post offices. How often do you go to the post office?
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