On Friday, 11 a.m. came and went with no blackout of KHON-TV or its sister station, the CW affiliate from Oceanic Time Warner Cable.

The parent companies of the TV stations and the cable company reached agreement on a new contract, allowing uninterrupted service.

Cable and satellite TV providers pay for broadcast content, which historically is higher-rated than cable programming.

The agreement came nearly at the eleventh hour, said Kristina Lockwood, president and general manager at KHON.

"We were all pretty happy," she said of the agreement.

Cable industry publication Multichannel News also reported that the agreement was reached Friday afternoon, East Coast time.

When news of the dispute broke May 22, Oceanic Time Warner Cable President Bob Barlow said KHON parent company LIN TV Corp. was "demanding a price increase of over 50 percent, just two years after demanding another colossal price hike in other Time Warner Cable markets."

Barlow could not be reached for comment Friday following the settlement, and no details on the terms of the agreement were disclosed.

The stations could have been dropped by the state’s only cable provider as the respective mainland-based parent companies negotiated renewal of the retransmission agreement that allows Time Warner Cable to carry the stations’ programming on its system.

A 2008 dispute blacked out LIN stations from satellite television provider DISH Network in 17 markets for 25 days.

In Hawaii, ABC network and KITV local programming were blacked out from Oceanic for 10 days last year due to a similar dispute between Time Warner Cable and KITV parent Hearst Television Inc.