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Cities served by two or more cable companies

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In another TV oddity, some cities are served by more than one cable company.


Monroe MI – Comcast & Charter
Mooresville NC – Time Warner & MI-Connection
Washington DC – Comcast & RCN
Lehigh Valley PA – Service Electric & RCN
Houston TX – Comcast, Phonoscope &TVMax


Note that I’m not counting the phone companies (AT&T/Verizon) or the satellite providers (DirecTV/Dish). Also I’m not counting cities where different companies serve different parts of the city (e.g. NYC with Time Warner & Cablevision).


If you can come up with some other examples, post them here. If you want to, tell me which company has the better lineup.
 
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the ones in MN are mainly a cable company and a local Telco (an Independent Telco)

a few examples
Hutchinson, MN-Mediacom and NuTel (formerly the Hutchinson Telephone Company)
Mankato-Charter and Enventis (formerly HickoryTech)
New Ulm, MN-Comcast and NuTel
Winona, MN-Charter and HBC (Hiawatha Broadband Company)...HBC is actually a CLEC as they go against Centurylink for phone there
 
Before the series of mergers and acquisitions, the city of Los Angeles was very splintered as far as the amount of cable operators serving the area. Being that L.A. is a very large city (population-wise and geographically), at one point (let's say the 1990s), you had at least four or five different cable operators...

*Continental Cablevision/MediaOne/AT&T Broadband/Comcast/Time Warner Cable: served most of the central part of city, including Hollywood, Westchester (home to LAX), South Los Angeles, Westside (east of I-405, south of I-10), Harbor Gateway (essentially the section of the city that connects
*Century Communications/Adelphia/Time Warner Cable: served Westside (west of I-405, north of I-10), Northeast areas (Highland Park, Eagle Rock), West San Fernando Valley
*Cox Cable: Harbor areas (San Pedro, Wilmington)
*United Artists Cable/Paragon Cable/Time Warner Cable: East San Fernando Valley

Since 2006, when the Adelphia assets were acquired by Comcast and Time Warner (and subsequent system cluster trades), Time Warner Cable services almost the entire city of Los Angeles, except the Harbor area, which still belongs to Cox. There is a section of the city (Pacific View Estates), however, that is serviced by Charter.
 
Don't know if this is still the case, but as of about 2006 Evansville, IN had two providers - Comcast and SIGECO (owned by the local electric/nat gas provider). As I recall residents had the option of choosing either one.

Also from what I recall, SIGECO was rather slow in investing in and rolling out digital cable services.
 
Most of Metro Detroit has three choices: Comcast, WOW (WideOpenWest) or UVerse.

The competition does little to impact list prices but does possibly make it more likely that one can secure a promotional rate by threatening to leave for another provider.
 
Tucson has Comcast on the north side (including Marana), Cox everywhere else
 
Seattle, WA - Comcast and Frontier FiOS AND Broadstripe. Wave Broadband would even be put in but they are mainly in the rural parts of Seattle and up north on Whidbey Island and the Kitsap Peninsula.

-crainbebo
 
Two cable companies - Mediacom and Liberty Communications - serve both West Liberty IA (Quad Cities DMA) and West Branch IA (Cedar Rapids DMA). Both companies' lineups tend to lean toward Cedar Rapids, with all of that market's network affiliates carried in HD. As for the Quad Cities stations, only WHBF is carried in HD on Mediacom, while KWQC, WQAD, KLJB and WQPT are in HD on Liberty.

http://www.mediacomtoday-lineup.com/lineup/24/index.aspx
http://www.libertycommunications.com/images/stories/channels.pdf
 
Tampa/St. Petersburg, FL is served by 3 major cable companies. Bright House Networks (by far the largest), Verizon FIOS, and WOW!
 
From the "Cursed Cable Systems" thread:

ssetta said:
Full Channel in Bristol Co., RI as an alternate provider to Cox, though this system has been in the community for 30 years while Cox came in about 10 years ago to compete.


Here's their basic lineup: http://fullchannel.com/cable/stdplus_lineup.pdf
And their digital lineup: http://fullchannel.com/cable/digital_lineup.pdf


I will say it has improved quite a bit since Cox came in 10 years ago, though they still have a few significant channels missing. Note they don't carry the local PBS in HD, and are missing a few significant cable channels as well.
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