WNKY will return to Glasgow for one year per an agreement the Bowling Green television station and the Glasgow Electric Plant Board reached Tuesday night.

The EPB dropped WNKY on Jan. 1 because it “couldn’t come to monetary terms,” EPB Superintendent Billy Ray said then. WNKY had asked for a 1,000 percent increase and the EPB offered a “much lower” increase, Ray said. When an agreement wasn’t reached, the EPB removed the station from the Glasgow lineup.

“Discussions have continued off and on,” Ray said.

At the EPB board meeting in Glasgow on Tuesday night, the parties agreed on a 100 percent increase. Ray said the exact amount of how much that would be is confidential.

“We did finally arrive at a mutually acceptable level of agreement,” Ray said.

WNKY had also filed a complaint against the EPB with the Federal Communications Commission. Part of the agreement states that the EPB will petition the FCC to drop the complaint, Ray said. The next step is to structure a formal agreement to perfect Tuesday’s letter of agreement. Although most agreements are “classically three-year terms,” the agreement between WNKY and the EPB will be one year.

The channels that WNKY once occupied aren’t available anymore, so the EPB will have to fit the station somewhere else in the lineup.

“As soon as we can get (WNKY) back on, we will,” Ray said. “Those positions have been filled up with other services when (WNKY was) taken off.”

The EPB has to give its customers a 30-day notice before it moves things around, Ray said.

“It’s going to be a fairly deliberate process,” Ray said.

Ray said the EPB received a “smattering of responses from people who want certain programming from WNKY,” but there wasn’t a large outcry when the station was removed. Regardless, the EPB wants to provide all programming possible.

“Part of our responsibility is providing all the programming choices for people we can afford,” Ray said.

Ray said he expects negotiations to extend WNKY’s presence in Glasgow and will continue throughout this year.

“They’ll have to provide attractive programming at a reasonable rate for us to go longer than this one-year agreement,” Ray said.

Julie Milam, general sales manager for WNKY, did not return a call for comment before deadline.

Other Bowling Green stations that the EPB provides include WKGB, which is KET; WBKO, the CW, ABC and Fox; WCZU, which is MYTV; and WKYU from Western Kentucky University, according to a link on the EPB’s website, glasgow-ky.com.