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We cut the cord after our local cable provider, Time-Warner, raised our rates to over $90 a month for our cable television service alone. We have one HDTV and were subscribed to the basic cable service, with a digital box. We also subscribed to what they called their "Variety" tier, which included A & E, BBC America, Discovery Channel and the other basic cable channels. We did not get HBO or any premium channels and there were many other basic channels not even included in their Variety tier. In addition, we were charged $10 a month for the rental of...

Des Moines, Iowa -- Time is up on the dispute between Mediacom Communications and Sinclair Broadcast Group. Now Mediacom cable subscribers in Cedar Rapids can't watch CBS, and subscribers in Des Moines can't watch Fox. In Des Moines shortly after midnight, Mediacom pulled the plug on KDSM-TV, the Sinclair-owned Fox affiliate which is normally carried on cable channel 6. Mediacom ran ESPN News in its place overnight, a duplication of a cable outlet already carried on channel 22. Mediacom may substitute other programming on channel 6 during the duration of KDSM's absence. The timing could not be worse for sports...

...The 2004 presidential campaign is being fought as aggressively over the airwaves as it is on the hustings. With many states up for grabs, candidates and their allies are using tailored broadcast ads, like the DNC's Pittsburgh spot, which are also called "tracking" or "pre-buttal" ads. These spots, an advertising innovation this election, are prepared for specific markets and run around the time the opposing candidate makes a campaign appearance. Tracking ads are cheaper and easier to produce than national ads, but can be just as effective.... President Bush's campaign cut the first tracking ad, which coincided with a visit...

Mediacom our local cable company messaged today that they were going to carry the springsteen concert sponsored by moveon.org. Please send them a message.