Hearst-Argyle, Cox Ink Retrans Consent Deal

Hearst-Argyle Television and Cox Communications have signed a retransmission consent agreement for six TV Markets.

The pact provides retransmission consent for carriage over Cox Communications cable systems of the digital and analog signals of Hearst-Argyle's television stations WESH and WKCF, Orlando; KMBC, Kansas City, MO; KOCO, Oklahoma City; WDSU, New Orleans; KETV, Omaha; and KHBS/KHOG, Fort Smith/Fayetteville, AK.

The agreement includes carriage of the 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.