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As a result of cable company buy-outs or mergers of
local or national consequence, the franchisee (our cable
company) has changed five times since 1986.
The most recent merger was of AT&T
Broadband and Comcast.
Technically, no cable television franchises were transferred
as a result of the 2002 merger transaction. Branford
(one of ten AT&T Broadband franchise areas in Connecticut)
continued to be held by the franchisee via the merger.
However the cable Company became Comcast, Inc.
 COMCAST,
Inc. @2002
AT&T
Broadband @1996
TCI
Cablevision of So. Central CT
@1992
Heritage
Communications, Inc. @1989
Rollins
Cablevision of CT @1986
Community
TV Systems @1975
The consolidation of media corporations
is a topic of much debate. Anticipated consumer benefits
identified in merger documents follow:
accelerate broadband deployment
in areas such as telephony,
high-speed Internet service, video-on-demand,
other interactive television services,
as well as achieve substantial
operating synergies that will serve the public interest.
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Our Cable Co. is COMCAST.
Call 1-800-COMCAST
(800-266-2278) or click here for Product
information available in CT.
CTAM
Brief: Media
Industry Profile
Our history of cable consolidation can
be traced in the Dept.
of Public Utilities records which are made public via
their Docket Web Site.
Adelphi Comcast
Merger
July 28th 2006
Docket 05-06-13
Status Rpt
AT&T Comcast Merger
Docket # 02-03-10
Statistics
# of Basic Subscribers
05.2003: 64,365
01.2006: 61,318
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