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In article <flash.724433398@ellison>, 
flash@unx.sas.com (Gordon Keener) writes:
|>In <1DPsVB1w165w@circle.raleigh.nc.us> lance@Circle.Raleigh.NC.US 
(Lance A. Brown) writes:
|>>
|>>I read a short article in the N&O a few weeks ago indicating that 
|>Cary was to start getting the Sci-Fi channel December 1, and many 
|>other areas would start getting it on January 1, along with a 
|>coincidental $1.95 rate hike.
|>
|>How fortunate. The Cablevision swine are giving us the rate hike 
|>*without* any new channels "because of the new cable bill". I want 
|>competition. I can't put up a dish in my neighborhood, and I've 
|>got too many trees near my deck for a stealth dish to work.
|>--

Interestingly enough, I think if you read the fine print, and
_all_ of it is fine print, the rate for basic cable actually went
down. The rate hike is, IMHO, just cablevision sticking it to
the consumer again so it can say "I told you so" about the 
cable bill. Hopefully when the bill comes into force (I believe 
6 months after it was passed), you guys will get some alternatives
or some relief.

I also noticed that CVI has been in the last year or so laying 
cable to anything that looks semi-permanent, at least in the 
southern part of Wake co. I suspect that is so they can have a
leg up when competition becomes a reality.

Joe Slater
sasjzs@vms.sas.com
Mine opinion is just that.