The resulting $220 per subscriber translates into a tiny pot of real cash to service cable's sometimes monstrous debt.
Each unit includes an eat-in kitchen, daily maid service, cable TV and a VCR.
Almost 9m homes now receive Sky channels through the BSkyB service, cable or ONdigital.
Many people within KACV's reach have full-service cable, with channels like Comedy Central, the E! network and TNT.
These scores can determine whether someone is pitched a platinum credit card or a plain one, a full-service cable plan or none at all.
But on one wall, an experimental display of tablets and smartphones labeled "Home Services" offers Verizon customers a new service: cable TV.
(Since Nick Jr. became a full-service cable channel in 2008, replacing Noggin, ratings have nearly doubled, indicating a demand for programming for preschoolers in the evenings).
The noncompetitive local franchise model means that when one cable giant buys another, the customers generally have the same choices as before for subscription TV (cable or satellite) and internet service (cable or phone company DSL).
What makes NTL unique is that it already bundles telephone service, cable and Internet access into a single service.
The Dolans will use the stores to demonstrate products like HDTV sets, telephone services, cable modems and digital set-top boxes configured for video on demand.
