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Re: Cablevision lies

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From: Carl M. Kadie
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:52
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[Posted to both uiuc.general and the non-local cable newsgroups. - Carl]

kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:

>I have mixed feeling about the cable-tv regulation, but not about the
>slimy insert I just received in my cablevision bill. For example, that
>figure of a $23 dollar increase comes not from the Commerce department
>but from the National Cable Television Association.
[...]

I talked to the marketing manager of Cablevision of Champaign-Urbana
(for about half an hour).  He called the NCTA to verify the
attribution. He says that the NCTA says that the Commerce Department
says that the number is right. He couldn't suggest any way for me to
verify this independently.

- Carl
-- 
Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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From: kadie@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: Re: Cablevision lies
Message-ID: <1992Aug28.205213.761@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:52:13 GMT
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