Customers of Time Warner Cable found they were unable to receive local news from WLWT Channel 5 Tuesday morning after talks between the station and cable company broke down over a disagreement in how much Time Warner should pay the channel in rights fees to carry its programming.

The local news on the station was replaced with the news broadcast from Channel 2 in Terra Haute, Ind. National programming, such as prime time television shows, is still being shown on the channel. The dispute came because WLWT wants an increase in the fees the cable company pays to show the programming — an increase of 300 percent, according to Time Warner, although WLWT officials did not verify that number.

“WLWT’s carriage agreement with Time Warner/Insight expired at 11:59 p.m. on July 9,” managers of the station wrote on the company’s website. “Unfortunately, notwithstanding our best efforts to reach a new carriage agreement, we were unable to do so. As a result, unless there is a change in Time Warner’s/Insight’s position, carriage of WLWT and MeTV will no longer be available to you on Time Warner/Insight systems.

“We cannot predict if or when discussions with Time Warner/Insight will resume or if or when WLWT’s programming will be restored on Time Warner/Insight systems,” the statement continued, adding the signal was still available over the air and on satellite systems like DirecTV and Dish network and newscasts would be streamed on the channel’s website.

In a statement released by Time Warner, the cable company said:

“Tonight, Hearst Television has chosen to black out their signals from our customers rather than continue negotiations, despite their CEO saying just two weeks ago that broadcaster blackouts are unfair to consumers. Time Warner Cable has reached hundreds of agreements with other broadcasters without broadcaster blackouts, but Hearst’s demand for a nearly 300 percent increase is way out of line. That kind of outrageous increase is unfair to our customers and unsustainable for our business. We believe broadcaster blackouts are wrong. Despite Hearst’s blackout, we stand ready to continue negotiations and are hopeful that their stations will be returned to our lineups shortly.”