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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.

  Cable TV companies everywhere are raising their rates before the new federal
law takes effect.
  On Monday, officials at Cablevision of Charlotte said most of their customers
will pay 5% more, starting Feb. 1.  But Cablevision President Jeff King denied
his company's latest increase was timed to elude the federal government's 
still-unwritten rules, which take effect in April.  "We're not trying to get
under the wire," he said.  "This is definitely part of our annual increase and 
it has to do with programming costs."  (Yeah, right.)  He would not disclose
which channels have increased their programming rates.  
  The cable companies are lowering "Basic" service, which includes local broad-
cast stations, a cable preview guide and government and public access channels.
"While the reduction (for basic service) has everything to do with the Cable
Act, the increase (for other cable services) has nothing to do with the Cable
Act."  (Yeah, right.)
  In Charlotte, fewer than 10% of Cablevision 100,000 customers get basic
service alone.    

  Just if we had some competition... Was AT&T ever approved to provide cable
services?

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