Time Warner Cable agreed to carry the new station only hours before the network's launch on September 18.
Due to its low-power status, Oceanic Cable was not required to carry the station.
Comcast had carried the station on analog channel 17 until February 2008, when it was moved by to digital only to "preserve bandwidth".
Around 11 a.m. the same day, most of the cable operators stopped carrying the station.
In exchange, a broadcaster may propose that the operator pay cash to carry the station or ask for any other form of consideration.
Big John Riley - staff announcer/on-air personality (carried the station from black and white into color; long loved by the community)
In fact, it's been about three years since AOL carried the station exclusively.
Around the same time Comcast started carrying the station in the Boston and Atlanta markets.
Currently, some cable systems carry the station.
Verizon FiOS carries the station on cable channel 6.