In rural areas, cable companies are less susceptible to customer demand for technological upgrades, he said.
The reality is that, in most areas, cable companies face little or no competition.
Cablevision is the only New York area cable operator not carrying the Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network on its system.
MSG now gets $1.60 per subscriber from metropolitan area cable systems (and less than half of that for outer regions).
WPIX, the New York City affiliate of the CW network, is being blacked out in homes serviced by Cablevision, a major New York metropolitan area cable company.
As we all know by now, Cablevision is a holdout among area cable franchises, offering to show Yankee games only on a premium channel for a viewer surcharge.
And in another nasty cable fight that was resolved just last week, Scripps Networks recruited its stars from the Food Network and HGTV in ads complaining that Cablevision, a New York-area cable provider, had removed the channels from the service.
The plan is to make in-market games available only to area cable subscribers.
The results of NHWW and HRWW concludes the 240 mm2 cross-sectional area cable is best in terms of cable length and the 120 mm2 cross-sectional area cable is best in terms of cable cost.
Time Warner signed up 5,000 of its 301,000 Rochester-area cable customers, but abruptly halted the project in early 1997.
