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- From: dewey@vpdbox.austin.ibm.com (Dewey Coffman)
- Subject: Cable Rates going up.
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:17:34 GMT
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- CABLE RATES ARE GOING UP:
- Some cable TV companies are hitting customers with steep price
- hikes four months before action on a law designed to hold rates
- down. Most of the nations' 11,000 cable systems are expected to
- raise monthly rates for 1993. And most of the announced increases
- exceed inflation - now about 3% annually. The National Cable
- Television Association says increases nationwide average about 6%.
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- COST OF IMPROVEMENTS BLAMED:
- Cable operators say recent price increases reflect fast-rising
- costs for programs and capital improvements, such as replacing
- wire cable with fiber optic lines. "The cost of business is going
- up," says Randall district manager of Continental Cablevision in
- St. Paul, Minn. "People are a too quick to judge cable right now."
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- Maybe we could organize a mass boycott of Austin Cablevision, ie get
- 500-1000 people to all agree to cancel the cable on February first if
- they don't lower the cost, Carry the Sci-Fi and Cartoon channel, upgrade
- their equipment for more channels.
-
- Course we should start with KBVO and get them to start broadcasting in
- stereo... ;-)
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- Who's game?
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- Dewey Coffman ibmpa!vpdbox.austin.ibm.com!dewey%ibminet.awdpa.ibm.com
- Consulting @ IBM dewey@ctci.com
- 11400 Burnet Rd All opinions are mine.
- Austin, TX 78758-3493, USA (512) 823-6463
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