Who knows? Who cares?

Part of me thinks that Cox probably did not concede that much. They are a bigger company. And what do they have to lose? They don't lose advertisers because they're not carrying the local channels; in fact, they can't sell advertising on those cable channels. They are giving cable channel space to competitors in advertising sales.

Cox would like to be able to make their subscribers happy, but it's the local channels who get the most benefit from having their programming carried on the cable channels. That's why I didn't understand the reasoning behind KOCO/Hearst-Argyle's arguments. KOKH and KOCB finally came to their senses. There was a lot of shows on those channels I just wouldn't watch because their HD signal was not available on Cox. It was their loss, not Cox's, because I would just find another HD show on another Cox channel! Hopefully, Hearst-Argyle will pull their collective head out of their butt and wake up to reality.