AT&T cuts another blow to former cable camelot.(cable television business in Denver, Colorado)

Multichannel News, October, 2002 by Kuhl, Craig A.

DENVER -- This city's reign as the capital of cable TV is over. Consolidation, a stressed economy and the natural ebb and flow of a maturing industry have put the Mile High City on a gradual downhill traverse from its peak years, when it was arguably cable's first-- and only -- capital.

The most recent evidence: AT&T Broadband said last week it will eliminate 675 Denver-based jobs by mid-December and a total of 1,700 by July 2003, as part of its pending merger with Comcast Corp. Initial job cuts will come from such administration sectors as accounting, marketing, legal and information technology, all at the MSO's Denver headquarters. The layoffs are the first phase of employment cuts related to the $48 billion merger. But more than 4,000...

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