MSOs feel digital churn. (Backtalk).(multi-service operators)(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, February, 2002 by Paskowski, Marianne

For a myriad of reasons, the race to install digital cable has slowed down, as some MSOs, like Comcast Corp., have reported a downtick in fourth-quarter growth. Comcast reported 213,000 new digital-video installations for the period, compared to 243,000 in the third quarter. And for different reasons, Cablevision Systems Corp.

-- which is ironing out some technical glitches -- announced that it will slow down its digital-cable rollout. None of that was lost on the analysts who track these things, or on the consumer press, in which analysts like to see their names ...