Small cable operators were in Washington last week, hoping to persuade Congress to give them a greater opportunity to sell out to telephone companies. (Small Cable Business Association) (Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, February, 1994

Small cable operators were in Washington last week, hoping to persaude Congress to give them a greater opportunity to sell out to telephone companies. Under current House legislation, (H.R. 3636), telephone companies can buy out in-region cable systems only if the communities the systems serve have fewer than 10,000 people.

The Small Cable Business Association is urging law-makers to expand the exemption to include all systems serving 25,000 or fewer, subscribers and to give the FCC authority to grant waivers to the buy-out prohititions in certain circumstances.