The deal announced some 19 hours after the New Year’s Eve midnight deadline covers the Fox television stations, Fox, Fox Cable Networks and Fox’s Regional Sports Networks for TWC’s 13 million households. It also applies to Bright House Networks’ 2.4 million subs; the operator has a heavy presence in Florida, which means a particular interest in avoiding black screens when Florida meets Cincinnati in the Allstate Sugar Bowl.

TWC has yet to announce a similar agreement with Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) for the Food Network and Great American Country. We have confirmed that negotiations continue.

So far, TWC and BH subs have avoided the same fate as Cablevision’s 3 million households, which woke up on New Year’s Day to find that HGTV and Food were no longer available. Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) seemed to shut the door on any possible resolution, while Scripps execs say they’re willing to talk. Meanwhile, the two continue to spar in public without resuming negotiations, we have confirmed with Scripps.

The hot spotlight from U.S. Sen. John Kerry and the FCC provided an incentive for News Corp and TWC to keep the lights on. Yes, cable nets were involved but this deal primarily was about payment for a broadcast network and local stations in the post-digital transition age. HGTV and Food are pure cable programming and far less likely to draw that kind of public support for a deal. Plus, neither one has rights for a BCS game or the NFL.

News Corp was open about wanting an unlikely $1 a sub for retransmission. Did it get anything close? Go back to that word “unlikely.”