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Welcome to the website for the
Hartford Area
Cable TV Advisory Council

COMCAST Cable serves 6 towns in the greater Hartford area. HACTAC is the designated organization with the role to seek input, provide information and offer advice on ways the cable franchise can better serve its customers.

Please feel free to contact HACTAC members in your town
(who we are) and offer your comments and suggestions about COMCAST and what HACTAC might be able to do to better inform and represent COMCAST subscribers.

HACTAC

Next Meeting 7pm

April 21 , 2010

Simsbury


 

HACTAC PULSE POLL

 

History of the Hartford CATV Franchise
June, 1976

The initial application for the Hartford area franchise was foiled with the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) by New England Industries, Inc. (NEI) of New York City, on April 21, 1964. On March 21, 1967, New England Industries, Inc was granted a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity by the PUC to construct and operate a cable television system in the towns of Hartford, West Hartford, East Hartford, Windsor, Bloomfield and Simsbury. Shortly thereafter, NEI formed a subsidiary corporation, Hartford CATV, Inc to operate the franchise. The firm was owned 95% by NEI and 5% by Irving s. Ribicoff and David Kotkin of Hartford.

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CABLE TV Notes

The Comcast Hartford franchise covers 6 towns -Bloomfield, East Hartford, Hartford, Simsbury, West Hartford and Windsor.

CABLE TV COVERAGE
As of 1-1-07
1,577,019 homes in CT
had Cable TV access
1,039,944 (66%) were connected

In 2001 cable saturation was 76%

As of 1-1-07
Comcast Hartford lines passed 147,994 homes
78,101 (53%) were connected.

2006 Connecticut had 24 cable TV franchises and 1,039,944 subscribers

2005 Connecticut had 24 cable TV franchises and 1,051,584 subscribers

2004
24 cable TV franchises and 1,084,954 subscribers

2003
26 franchises and
1,115,722 subscribers

More stats as DPUC updates these figures

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