home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wupost!spool.mu.edu!agate!ucbvax!mtxinu!usenix!rgbsys!rick
- From: rick@rgb.com (Rick Davis)
- Newsgroups: ba.general
- Subject: Re: pressure those nasty Bay Area cable companies!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.004102.2023@rgb.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 00:41:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.210516.27444@smsc.sony.com>
- Distribution: ba
- Organization: RGB Spectrum
- Lines: 25
-
-
- We don't have it any better in the East Bay. Cable Oakland, those buttheads,
- were requested to place their wires underground along Grand Avenue between
- MacArthur and Oakland. They called all of the property owners along
- Grand and asked them whether they would pay the (quote) $100,000 it would
- cost to bury the wires for four blocks. Of course, 95 % or so of the
- property there is rental, so the owners never use the cable service there.
- They said "no", so Cable Oakland ripped the cables off of 4 blocks of
- Grand. Unfortunately, this section of Grand is a real RF hole, as there
- is a hill blocking us from Sutro tower. Now, there is no cable and
- almost no TV. Cable Oakland was very unhelpful when I complained to them,
- and so was the Oakland City Council. If there was ever a good site for
- a local satellite feed co-op, it's upper Grand.
- Just to rub salt in the wound, last month Cable Oakland put up a
- huge billboard right in the middle of our block which basically said
- "We're here when you need us!". Fortunately they took it down before
- I had a chance to deface it.
-
- Another mad ex-cable customer;
- Rick Davis
- --
- R G B Spectrum
- 950 Marina Village Parkway / "You can't fight in here - this
- Alameda, California / is the war room!" - Dr. Stragelove
- rick@rgb.com
-