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Quoted: No industry in the U.S. is more corrupt than the cable tv industry...
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Dude, you are full of shit.
I run a private cable company, there is no corruption going on in my company. The corrupt sonsabitches are ESPN, FOX SPORTS, MTV...the programmers. They are the persons responsible for your cable bill going up faster than the CPI every year.
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define 'private cable company'.
Charter, Cox, and time warner oughta teach classes for up-and-coming crime bosses.....
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My grandfather started the cable company in the town I live in back in 1953. My father ran the business until 1994 when I took over. We have been in business for over 50 years, many more years than Charter, Cox, etc.
Once again, it's not the Cable Companies fault that the damn programmers raise their rates double digits every year.
ESPN raised my rates 58 cents for 2005. Thats just for 1 channel. MTV Networks just sent me my new contracts today as a matter of fact, they want almost double next year what I have been paying them this year.
The programmers are the people who are gouging the customers, not the cable companies.
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Who's fault is it that cable companies have such horrid customer service, technical support, business relationships with other utilities, and the agressive monopolistic mindsets wherby they use every resource imagineable to block new entries into their markets?
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I can't speak for other cable companies...just my own.
I have my new connects done same day. Is that bad service?
I have worked many weekends, holidays, etc to make sure my customers have a good signal.
Block New Entries into Markets?
I don't get this. How are cable companies blocking new entries into their markets?
Any company can come and overbuild a cable company....you know why it doesn't happen?
Because there isn't enough business out there to support two cable companies in a town.
Especially with DISH and DIRECTTV offering video services.
I can hardley make it now trying to compete with satellite.
The programmers give big discounts to DISH and DIRECT TV, but charge higher rates to us little companies. ESPN only charges about $2.00 to DISH and DIRECT TV, but because they can they charge me $3.22...so I am subsidizing my competition. Thats what is bullshit about the whole thing.
Congress needs to pass a law forcing the programmers to have a uniform rate card and charge everybody the same.
Plus Satellite TV doesn't pay franchise fees to the local cities...7% of my gross receipts goes to the city every month to help support the local library, pools, etc.
You wonder why your cable bill goes up every year, well these are some of the reasons.