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Re: cable area boundaries within city of Chicago

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From: Geoff Gass
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:32
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David W. Tamkin <nobody@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
> Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote in <jk9pmb$nle$1@remote5bge0.ripco.com>:
>
>| Didn't AT&T take over Prime Cable in 2001/2002 for a while before Comcast
>| entered the picture?
>
> Yes, and as I remember AT&T had taken over from Chicago Cable in areas 1, 4,
> and 5 around the time they took over from Prime Cable in areas 2 and 3, and
> thus the whole city was AT&T cable territory for a while.

TCI was in the middle there, think they bought Chicago Cable, then were
bought by AT&T
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From: Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com>
Newsgroups: chi.media
Subject: Re: cable area boundaries within city of Chicago
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:32:00 +0000 (UTC)
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