Tci Agrees To Keep C-Span

Sat., May 3, 1997

Compiled From Wire Services

The nation’s largest cable company, reacting to customer backlash over dropping C-Span, has entered into a long-term agreement to carry the public affairs network.

Leo Hindery, president of TeleCommunications Inc., said Thursday in a speech to cable executives that the company signed a 15-year agreement.

With more than 16 million customers, Englewood, Colo.-based TCI owns most of the cable systems that carry C-Span, and most of the systems that dropped it, too.

“About 97 percent of our customers now have access to C-Span but only about two-thirds have access to C-Span 2,” Hindery said. “I am today committing … that we will have 100 percent carriage of both … within the next 2-1/2 years.”

C-Span and C-Span 2 carry House and Senate sessions in full and fill 17,520 hours a year.

Since 1993, C-Span has been dropped or cropped by 67 systems serving 9.1 million of its potential audience of 70.2 million cable viewers. Service ultimately was restored to 3.2 million, often as a result of protests.

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