WEAR, Mediacom Reach Agreement

January 8, 2010

Sinclair Broadcasting, the parent company of WEAR 3, and Mediacom have reached a one year agreement that will keep WEAR on Mediacom cable for another year.

Mediacom “has finalized a 12-month agreement with Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. covering retransmission consent rights for 22 television stations carried in Mediacom cable systems,” Tom Larsen,  senior vice president for legal and public affairs for Medicacom, said in a written statement. “Additional terms of the agreement were not disclosed.”

““We are very happy with the outcome of the negotiations which includes an acceptable economic arrangement. We are pleased that our viewers and Mediacom’s customers will continue to receive the important and popular programming carried on our stations such as the local news, sports, and network shows as CSI, American Idol and 24,” said David Smith, president and CEO of Sinclair, in a written statement.

WEAR was set to be pulled at midnight Friday from Mediacom, which serves about 100,000 customers on the Gulf Coast including Atmore. Sinclair’s programming was scheduled to be removed from Mediacom’s cable systems on December 31, but the two companies reached an eight day agreement so viewers could watch college bowl games.

The dispute centered around the amount of money Medicacom pays Sinclair for the right to retransmit the programming of WEAR and 21 other stations in 15 markets. A similar dispute in 2007, did not end before deadlines passed. WEAR was off Mediacom for about month.

Comments

2 Responses to “WEAR, Mediacom Reach Agreement”

  1. Wild Bill on January 11th, 2010 8:49 am

    Great!!!!!!! Another 12-month contract. I guess that means again next December we get to see the same crap over and over about Medicom subscribers losing Channel 3 signal due to contract negotiations………… Two years in a row….this crap is really getting old…..

  2. LET'S NIP IT IN THE BUD! on January 10th, 2010 10:15 pm

    GREAT! I really enjoy some of the older programs.

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