December announcement or maybe even a launch just in time for an extended winter event
I think you're being optimistic by at least 12 months. City of Heroes is not going to be under the Christmas Tree for 2014. If it were, we'd already know about it.
This is going to be a long, long process, and the next piece of news is not going to be an announcement telling us to log in. Settle down, dial back your expectation accept that it's probably going to be this time next year before anything concrete comes to pass.