Officials for Graham Holdings Company’s Cable One say they have reached a temporary licensing agreement with NBCUniversal to keep the NBC Sports Network on its program guide for the next six months.
In June, Cable One released a statement, indicating negotiations for carriage renewal of the channel were going down to the wire.
“Cable One is in negotiations with NBC Sports Network (on our Digital Value Pack) for the right to continue carriage of their channel,” the statement read. “Our agreement expires at midnight on 6/30/14. Cable One is committed to avoiding disruption to our customers and will attempt to reach a new agreement with NBC Sports Network before that time.”
Cable One–which serves around 730,000 subscribers in 19 states across the Western US.–pulled Viacom channels, including Nickelodeon, MTV, BET and Comedy Central, off its service in April after failing to come to an agreement to extend a carriage deal that expired 3/31. Viacom responded by blocking anyone with a Cable One domain name from accessing its free streaming content.
Cable One responded by adding BBC America, Sprout, Investigation Discovery, The Blaze, Hallmark Channel, National Geographic, TV One and the Sundance Channel to its lineup, noted the Fierce Cable story.
