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WCMH-TV (Channel 4) owner Media General and Time Warner Cable reached a retransmission consent
agreement in the waning hours of 2012, allowing the cable company to continue carrying WCMH-TV and
its secondary digital channel, Me-TV (Channel 4.2).

Dan Bradley, president and general manager of WCMH, said late last night that the two sides had
settled the dispute and were working to finalize the agreement, but no terms of the deal were
available.

At issue in the talks was the fee that cable companies pay to retransmit broadcasters'
programming.

Ad-supported broadcast networks and their affiliates, aware that cable networks such as ESPN and
CNN negotiate with cable carriers for often-lucrative fees, have increasingly insisted on getting
that second source of income.

The station was seeking “fair compensation for the value we put out there,” said Dan Bradley,
Channel 4 president and general manager.

“We know from Nielsen ratings that Channel 10, Channel 4 and Channel 6 are the most heavily
viewed channels on cable. We've got a considerable investment in this market. We're here to serve
the community, so give us a fair value.”

Meanwhile, Time Warner Cable had complained during negotiations that Media General was asking
for a 200 percent in the fees that the cable company pays to carry its stations’ signals.

Time Warner Cable, the No. 2 cable television company in the United States with revenue of $19.7
billion in 2011, is the dominant cable carrier in Ohio, serving more than 300,000 subscribers in
central Ohio.

In addition to WCMH, Media General owns 17 other stations around the country, almost all of
which are carried by Time Warner Cable. Media General had revenue of $616.2 million in 2011.