Cable Television Services
Starting in 1981, local residents created the Municipal telecommunications utility to provide cable TV. High-speed Internet service was not available up until 2001. A total of 9,972 cable TV customers, and 1,815 high-speed internet customers. The telecommunications system alone generates $4.4 million annually.
The system consists of:
- 75 analog channels
- 53 digital video/audio channels
- Both analog and digital pay-per-view selections
- Five Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV channels without additional charge
The system contributes five percent of gross revenue to the city’s general fund. The system is up-to-date. It was rebuilt from the headend to the consumer in 1998. Again, WMS also owns the lines and they are separate from surrounding communities. It consists of:
- 25-miles of fiber optic lines
- 72-miles of coaxial cable
The system has its benefits over the other communities, both in monthly service charges and in customer service.
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Famous quotes containing the words cable, television and/or services:
“To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.”
—Douglass Cross (b. 1920)
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
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—Jeanne Elium (20th century)