Aug. 10–Cox Communications Inc.’s customers will see their monthly rates rise almost 6 percent next week for the most-popular cable television package. The cost for Cox’s standard package, now called TV Essential, will climb from $ 51.95 a month to $ 54.99 as of Aug. 16. TV Essential includes about 70 analog channels. [...]
Time Warner Cable customers could miss Ohio State ‘s football game against the Miami Hurricanes in September if a contract dispute between the company and ESPN is not resolved. Ohio ‘s largest cable TV provider has not reached an agreement with the cable sports network about the fees that Time Warner will pay to [...]
LAS CRUCES – An increase in the monthly bill, an impending switch to digital broadcasting, channels and networks that suddenly go dark or inexplicably stop broadcasting, and audio that either blasts you out of your seat or makes you strain to hear are some of the complaints of Comcast subscribers in Las Cruces. “As much [...]
Death. Taxes. And cable TV rate increases. All sure bets, as Oregon cable TV customers will be reminded when they get their January bills. Comcast announced its annual price hike Monday, raising rates for its standard “Digital Starter” package by 5.1 percent. Subscribers will pay $ 63 a month — $ 3 more than they [...]
Changes will take effect Jan. 1 Comcast is raising rates on cable-television and high-speed Internet services in Colorado by an average of 4.6 percent. The hikes, effective Jan. 1, will generally add $ 2 to $ 3 a month to many of the company’s more popular packages, now marketed under the Xfinity brand. For example, [...]
If you have Time Warner Cable or DirecTV, get ready for rates hikes in the new year. It’s a complicated situation, and not everyone is affected the same way. Ray Tubridy just received his notice in the mail this week. “I got my cable bill and second page on there was a notification of a [...]
Frontier Communications Corp. plans an enormous price increase for its FiOS cable TV customers in Oregon and Washington , marginalizing the company as a competitor to Comcast. Rates will rise 46 percent or more for standard cable plans — the result, Frontier says, of rate hikes by the cable networks. The higher rates won’t immediately [...]
Time Warner Cable is imposing a sweeping set of rate increases for its TV, Internet and phone services in the Rochester region, effective Jan. 15. The increases will vary, depending on the services purchased and where a customer lives. In general, rates are going up from 6 percent to 10 percent for everything from basic [...]
Local Mediacom cable customers are seeing a slight increase in rates on this month’s bills. The company’s rates were increased either $ 2 or $ 3, depending on subscription levels, effective with December service. Customers subscribing to the broadcast basic package (channels 2 through 22) saw their monthly rates go from $ 25.95 to $ [...]
SYRACUSE , N.Y. — Time Warner Cable has begun notifying customers of rate increases that will boost the local price for standard cable TV by 6.8 percent and add 7.7 percent to the cost of digital cable service. The new rates take effect Feb. 1. Rates for stand-alone phone service or Internet service are not [...]