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Re: Letter to my cable company. Stale topics, reruns, infomercials and more.

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From: Jeremy S. Nichols, PE
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:43
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"Ben" <benesh@NOSPAMnew.rr.com> wrote in message
news:xmwVa.58312$6a3.1225984@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com...
> What is your cable company going to be able to do about
what OTHER networks
> put on for their program.  The cable company will laugh at
this knowing they
> can do nothing about the programming of the networks.  I
suggest you write
> to the networks individually.
>

The cable company can influence the networks. The cable
company chooses what networks to carry (and pays for them).
A letter from them means more than a letter from me, a mere
cable subscriber. So I write to both the cable company and
to the cable networks.



-- 
Jeremy S. Nichols, PE
Minneapolis, MN
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