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Monterey County, Calif., to Reconsider Cable Agreement.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2002

By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 9--Monterey County supervisors, who have been locked in litigation with the county's major cable television franchise, may not go along with a request to adjust the franchise agreement to reflect a merger.

The Board of Supervisors has scheduled a hearing at 11 a.m. Tuesday to consider whether to formally agree to allow the franchise to move from AT&T Broadband to AT&T Comcast.

But an AT&T spokesman says that threatening denial of the changeover is a "ploy" to improve the county's position in the litigation.

The supervisors originally approved the existing franchise with TCI Cablevision, covering portions of the unincorporated area of...

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