Re: cable area boundaries within city of Chicago

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From: Geoff Gass
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:32

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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> wrote:
>>David W. Tamkin <nobody@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
>>>Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
>
>>>>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
>
> AT&T bought TCI 1998-1999. AT&T bought MediaOne in 1999-2000. Did they
> have one of the Chicago areas, too?

oh yeah, MediaOne was in there too.  I even have a vague memory of some kind
of swapping going on between TCI and MediaOne in there as well prior to AT&T
buying both

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From: Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com>
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Subject: Re: cable area boundaries within city of Chicago
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:32:20 +0000 (UTC)
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