Cable Companies in your local TV market

[KeyTimes950]

Comcast holds much of the sway in metropolitan Pittsburgh. Around my home base there is one system for the city of Pittsburgh and some suburbs, another for Westmoreland County, and in between a pair of former Adelphia systems for the North Versailles-Monroeville and Bethel Park-West Mifflin areas.

Armstrong has a lot of systems in outlying areas. Butler comes to mind.

Other companies also operate locally but frankly they don't come to mind at this writing.

Also, there is FiOS, which has a growing number of Pittsburgh area communities.

 

[anotherguyTN]

Blizzard59,
Thanks for the links. I had been wondering and was about to ask the question about if there was a site where you could find out what areas had what cable systems.

It appears that Time Warner has more of West TN than I thought now, since they took over the area that used to have New Wave.

I also forgot to mention that Jackson, TN also has a cable system operated by the Jackson Energy Authority.

In looking at the entire listings for TN, it looks like Comcast has most of the Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville areas, with Charter under various names being the largest system outside those cities.

 

[KML0224]

Comcast (this area originally started out as United Cable, then TCI, then AT&T, to the current Comcast).

Exact same thing here in New Britain, CT!

 

[Darth_vader]

Re: Cable monopolies in your local TV market

Currently it's Comca$t. Started out as "Clark County Cable Television, Inc." in the late '70s, then Cox had it for a while in the '80s, then it was another local monopoly (Columbia Cable) for quite a good long while until TCI grabbed it in the mid '90s. You probably all know the story from that point out.

Portland has only had three cable monopolies, to my knowledge: Cox, Paragon (mid '80s-early 2000s) and eventually Crapcast.

Columbia Cable was probably the one and only monopoly, at least when the folks actually were still giving them money, that they had the fewest complaints about. By the way, as of summer of 2012 the original coax line to the other house I was living at was still connected to the headend, feeding NTSC and QAM RF into it. This is despite the fact that they haven't seen a penny from Mum in nearly 17 1/2 years! They've always been REALLY bad about disconnecting cable lines in this city, it seems.

 

[LKellerIII]

San Francisco and many other parts of the Bay Area. Cable was originally supplied by Viacom. I don't recall if it was the 80s or 90s, but Viacom decided to divest their cable holdings, which were bought out by TCI. After a couple of years, TCI was acquired by AT&T, which made a mess of it, and sold it to Comcast.

People like to diss Comcast, but they are definitely the best of the four companies, in my opinion, which has only partly to do with improving technology. They also (in my experience) provide very decent customer service. Viacom was the worst. I finally concluded that you could not be hired by Viacom unless you proved you were rude and nasty. And cable service would often go out in even a light rain storm.

 

[desertv]

Cox is the primary cable provider in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. CenturyLink is slowly rolling out their "PRISM TV" service to parts of the Metro.

In the more rural parts of the market, CableOne and Suddenlink (formerly NPG) provide most cable services in Northern Arizona.

In Tucson, Comcast serves the northside (Marana/Oro Valley)..everything else is Cox

In Yuma it's Time Warner

 

[ShawnHill1]

Los Angeles is mostly Time Warner Cable; the entire city limits except the Harbor area (San Pedro) is covered by TWC; Cox covers San Pedro plus several surrounding cities to the west. Cox also serves southern Orange County, while the northern half is TWC. Charter covers several of the larger suburbs, such as Long Beach, Pasadena, Burbank, Malibu (okay, not large in population, but large geographically), portions of the San Gabriel Valley, and a good chunk of the Inland Empire region (San Bernardino and Riverside Counties).

Of course, AT&T U-verse and Verizon Fios are also available, but only in areas where they offer landline telephone services, and even then, neither one is fully wired for TV in some service areas.

Prior to the TWC-Adelphia-Comcast deal of 2005-06, the Los Angeles market was a lot more splintered in terms of cable service. TWC's service history in this area dates back to when Paragon Cable served portions of Los Angeles and Orange Counties, and Paragon acquired by TWC in 2000. Adelphia covered most of L.A.'s Westside, the west San Fernando Valley, areas north and east of Downtown L.A. Comcast covered most of the central city, from Hollywood to South L.A., and most of the southern suburbs. As part of the aforementioned deal, TWC and Comcast traded system clusters (most notably, Comcast's L.A. and Dallas systems for Time Warner's Houston and Philadelphia service areas among others).

 

[CrankyYankee]

In southern Vermont, between Bennington and Brattleboro, is Duncan Cable, that serves the MT. Snow/Wilmington/West Dover area. http://www.duncancable.com/index.html

 

[kilamanjero]

Birmingham: inside the city, it's Brighthouse. In the suburbs, it's Charter.

You forgot how Tuscaloosa and Gadsden wind up with Comcast and Anniston has Cable One. I remember that and don't reside in the region anymore.

 

[kilamanjero]

In the Atlanta area there are three. Comcast and U-Verse battle it out most everywhere except for the Northeast suburbs where Charter is the only game in town beyond a certain point (I think that point is Lawrenceville in Gwinnett County - Everything North and East of that point is Charter it seems).

Unfortunately, it is only Comcast and AT&T U-Verse as your only cable options in the core of the region. However, I have DirecTV as a provider so I am thankful to have that as an option instead. I'm hoping for the day that Verizon's FiOS comes to the Metro Atlanta area then I might considering dropping DirecTV.

 

[nomadcowatbk]

In Kansas City, for cable it's mostly Time Warner (formerly American Cablevision and TCI in Johnson County(Telecable before that)) and Comcast in Olathe and Eastern MO suburbs (Formely Jones Intercable). Surwest and ATT Uverse is available in some places. Google Fiber is coming to someplaces.