Founders May Be Ousted at Adelphia > LA a jewel?

LA a jewel?

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Wall Street sources say Charter Communications Corp., the fourth-largest
cable operator, controlled by computer billionaire Paul Allen, is eager to buy
Adelphia's Los Angeles system, which serves 500,000 customers.

Yet the Los Angeles operation is the pride of Adelphia founder John Rigas,
who operated mostly in small and medium-sized communities before his
$3.4-billion acquisition two years ago of Century Communications Corp. As
part of that deal, Century founder Leonard Tow became Adelphia's largest
shareholder outside the Rigas family.

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Here in Cleveland they treat us like crap as well. You'll have to excuse me, my digital cable has been down for 48 hours and I'm venting.

reply to JYoung
Damn skippy....

The LA Market is a disgrace. If you haven't heard yet from other threads, Adelphia acquired Century Cable's assets 5 years ago, and we were promised "new advanced services" such as digital cable and cable modem service.....

Fast forward 5 years.....

We've were only able to get Digital Cable less than a year ago, and as lml2000 explains in other threads, it's only "baby" digital....so it's a cop out. Heck, lml still can't even get that!

We still can't get cable modem service either! The saga began with this promise letter 5 years ago, and right up until this past April 1st when Adelphia assured our homeowners association that Cable Modem Service would be available. April Fools!!!!....and the joke's been on us for 5 years...

See this article:
»www.latimes.com/business/la-0000···16.story

And look at Adelphia's rollout of Cable Modems compared to the other franchises.....disgraceful....

For four of those 5 years, the only thing Adelphia sent us was a higher bill, with a new logo, for the same damn analog service. We had one HBO, one Showtime, One The Movie Channel, One Skinimax.....

"But exciting new products are on the horizon!"

What a ripoff...They got nearly five free years out of us without really making any visible infrastructure improvements....Oh yeah....they blamed the Department of Water and Power for that in the article, the first excuse we actually heard from them in the "five years of when we're damn good and ready"....What a bunch of lame-o's....
serve's 'em right. I feel bad for the people who will get canned... They're nice people and they've been very helpful...Their managers of course will stay on or get golden parachutes....typical.
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reply to belushi
I hear you...

The only different about Los Angeles is that it they have more people to treat like crap!

Adelphia seems to like 6 month intervals for promises....

It's beyond pathetic at this point....It's now in the realm of completely hopeless....

You should be ashamed of yourself Rigas. This is of your own doing.... Am I the one stringing the cable? No...I'm paying the bill for you to do that... no doubt my bill has been going to pay for somebody else's cable modem service, because the service sure as hell hasn't been here for 5 year.
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A proud card carrying member of the Right Wing Conspiracy

reply to IPPlanMan
No arguement from me. As I've noted elsewhere, it appears to be a miracle that my area can get Cable modems at all. And as I noted elsewhere, based on their performance just doing cable TV, I wouldn't want to use them for broadband. I'll take my chances with DSL, thank you very much....
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If you're wondering how he eats and breathes and other science facts, then repeat to yourself "it's just a show, I should really just relax"

reply to belushi
Its funny to see all you guys sitting here complaining how bad your cable is.

There is a solution guys/gals: DirecTV

This is THE most awesome thing to happen to TV. I got mine hooked up last year. You couldn't buy it back from me. Picture is awesome, sound is awesome, the box on top of the TV is awesome (provides a great guide, on-screen CallerID, etc).

And, DirecTV was providing my major local channels up until a few months ago when they surprised me, for at no additional charge I got an additional 10+ local channels.

My bill is about $45.00/month for 3 TVs, 100 channels +30 channels of digital commercial free music. (Total Choice Plus)

Check this out... the other night I wanted to add a new package that came out with. Its was only an additional $2.00 for 6 awesome channels like Discovery Wings, Boomerang (great kids channel), etc. I did it on the web, and in 30 seconds I had the new channels on my TV's.

YOU CAN'T GET THE DAMN CABLE COMPANY TO ANSWER THE PHONE IN THAT SAME AMOUNT OF TIME!!!

Piss on the cable company. Once you experience DirecTV, you too will be sitting here beating the same drum as I am.

PS: When I called to cancel cable service, I told them (Comcast) I was getting DirecTV. They tried to sell me DirecTV as a last ditch effort to get my money!!! I guess they are an agent or something.

reply to JYoung
Can't get direct TV because my landlord will not let me run a cable to the roof where the satellite would need to be in order to get it. Believe me, I would have gotten Direct TV a long time ago if possible, errrr....stolen it.

reply to belushi

said by belushi:

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Here in Cleveland they treat us like crap as well. You'll have to excuse me, my digital cable has been down for 48 hours and I'm venting.

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reply to starlinx
That's all well and good but here's the problem....
Because of where I live, I can't get DirecTV!
I live in a ground floor apartment. I have no Southern Exposure unless I mount the dish on the roof. My landlord won't let me do it. For a variety of reasons, I won't be moving soon.
So Adelphia is the only option I have for decent reception (ha!). (TCI gave better service than Adelphia)
If I could get DirecTV, I'd have a DirecTiVo receiver and would be happy to flip Adelphia the bird....
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If you're wondering how he eats and breathes and other science facts, then repeat to yourself "it's just a show, I should really just relax"

reply to JYoung
Ditto JYoung...Same story here for me.

reply to JYoung
Well, I'm in the tiny Prestige Cable buyout and service SUCKS! There aren't enough IP addresses to go around, so my cablemodem reboots all the time...system resets to throw all the Kazaa users off. Whatever happened to "always connected." What a load of horseshit.
Customer service was better when small-town cable was run by small towns; but Adelphia got too big for her britches. Spread thin? You can't imagine how thin.
Just try calling tech support in Buffalo when it snows.
What a joke.
Hope and pray that Adelphia is fully broken up and that its bits and pieces are shared by the local big boys in your neighborhood. Service levels can only go up when they're non-existent. And, oh by the way, better get in writing what the speeds are on their broadband and have it tested before the installer leaves your house.

reply to starlinx
isnt this an internet site. since when did it become a tv veiwing site? im just curious.

reply to IPPlanMan
EMHinkle said :

The LA Market is a disgrace. If you haven't heard yet from other threads, Adelphia acquired Century Cable's assets 5 years ago, and we were promised "new advanced services" such as digital cable and cable modem service.....

I say :

You've been a proven liar on this subject. The sale took place in 1999! If you can trun 3 years into 5, please let me know the long term investment corp. your running!