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Executives from most of NBC's bigger station partners (and the chairman of its affiliate board) did not return phone calls or e-mail messages on Friday.

ABC executives also expressed hope that yesterday's agreement with the affiliate board would lead to two years of peace in what has sometimes been a fractious relationship.

Scott Blumenthal, the chairman of the CBS affiliate board, said the network seems committed to the development of the morning program.

NBC, for instance, is in talks with its affiliate board about negotiating retransmission deals on behalf of the affiliates, then splitting the fees down the middle, but that plan hinges on its acceptance by a sufficient number of affiliates.

Brian Lawlor, the chairman of the affiliate board, said he was hopeful that "we will finalize the details in the coming weeks that will allow NBC to introduce a structure to the affiliate base that will be positively accepted".

"Never before have a network and a cable company — of course, the country's biggest cable company — been co-owned," said Brian Lawlor, the chairman of the NBC affiliate board, in explaining why "there was initially apprehension" when the deal was announced in 2009.

Michael Fiorile, the head of the NBC affiliates board, who described himself as relieved by the changes, said, "there was no organized approach to what we might or might not do" about the 10 p.m. program, but there were "serious concerns".

"From what we've read and what we've seen, their interest in content certainly aligns with ours, so there's reason to be optimistic," said Michael Fiorile, the chairman of the NBC affiliates board and the chief executive officer of Dispatch Broadcast Group, which owns NBC stations in Indiana.

As head of the news committee of the NBC network's affiliates board, he helped persuade the network in 1991 to delay the beginning of "The Tonight Show" by five minutes, so stations would have more ad time to sell during their late newscasts.

To promote board-based management, Hyundai will fill half of all affiliates' boards with outside directors.

Neil Caesar, president of the South Carolina affiliate's board, said the action would damage the organization's already fragile standing in South Carolina.