CABLE SERVICE PLANS NEW LOOK; JONES TO INCREASE COSTS, CHANNELS TO SUBSCRIBERS IN A.V.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Jones Intercable Jones Intercable was a Cable TV company founded by Glenn Jones. Jones, already a cable television veteran, bought his first cable system in Georgetown, Colorado after taking a $400 loan on his Volkswagen. In 1993 30% of the company was purchased by BCI Telecom Holdings, Ltd. plans to raise rates in April and add three more channels to its Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley service. Effective April 1, monthly rates for limited basic service will increase from $14.51 to $15.28. The monthly rate for expanded basic service, which is an additional charge for subscribers, will go from $13.35 to $14.12. ``Rate increases are certainly not something we like to do and we explore all of our options very carefully before implementation,'' said Bill Rivas, marketing manager for Jones Intercable. ``We have been extremely creative this year and will be repacking our pay-premium service so that some of our customers may experience a rate decrease.'' Jones Intercable officials said they are raising rates because of increases in business costs, including programming rates charged by satellite networks. The company last raised Antelope Valley rates in April 1997. Also effective April 1, Jones Intercable will add Romance Classics to the basic-cable tier, the HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy 2 movie channel, and a new premium channel known as STARZ. HBO 2 will be provided free of charge to HBO subscribers. The company said it will realign re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. the channel lineup A criminal investigation technique in which the police arrange a number of individuals in a row before a witness to a crime and ask the witness to identify which, if any, of the individuals committed the crime. in response to customer comments about the difficulty in locating specific networks. Jones Intercable plans to cluster similar programming together. For example, sports programming will be grouped together as will news networks and family programming. ``We know that channel changes are extremely disruptive disruptive /dis·rup·tive/ (-tiv) 1. bursting apart; rending. 2. causing confusion or disorder. to our customers and we certainly appreciate their patience during this time,'' said Janet Spatz, Jones Intercable general manager. Jones Intercable will mail directories listing the new channel lineups to the 72,000 Antelope Valley households it serves before the April 1 changes. |
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