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In article <1992Aug28.205213.761@m.cs.uiuc.edu> kadie@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
>[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


Well, I have a bunch of relatives who live in Champagin-Urbana
Ill and they tell me that CableVision is owned by HBO. They can't
get SHOWTIME and The Movie Channel because HBO won't allow them
on THEIR cable.

So, just because HBO owns the local cable company, my relatives can't
get SHOWTIME and TMC. Shows what a monoply really means.


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