Tuesday, May 27, 2003
History of Cable Television in Grand Rapids.
General Electric Cable Vision (GE Cable) 1975 - 1985
United Artist Cablesystem Corporation Midwest (UACC Midwest) 1985 - 1992
TCI Cable 1992 -2000
AT&T Broadband 2000 - 2003
Comcast Cable 2003 - present
Note; although the cable company has changed hands many time since 1985, the local corporation is still registered as UACC Midwest.
TCI, AT&T and Comcast are all d.b.a names of UACC Midwest Inc. (d.b.a. = doing business as).
We have had two cable operators propose to overbuild the Grand Rapids system. The first was 21st. Century Cable, based out of Chicago, and the second was Everest Cable, based out of O'Fallon Missouri. Only the later recieved a franchise agreement. Everest became let the agreement lapse wen the economy tanked
General Electric Cable Vision (GE Cable) 1975 - 1985
United Artist Cablesystem Corporation Midwest (UACC Midwest) 1985 - 1992
TCI Cable 1992 -2000
AT&T Broadband 2000 - 2003
Comcast Cable 2003 - present
Note; although the cable company has changed hands many time since 1985, the local corporation is still registered as UACC Midwest.
TCI, AT&T and Comcast are all d.b.a names of UACC Midwest Inc. (d.b.a. = doing business as).
We have had two cable operators propose to overbuild the Grand Rapids system. The first was 21st. Century Cable, based out of Chicago, and the second was Everest Cable, based out of O'Fallon Missouri. Only the later recieved a franchise agreement. Everest became let the agreement lapse wen the economy tanked
Friday, May 23, 2003
My name is Jon Koeze. This is my blog. I am the Cable Television Administrator for the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is a position that I have held for over 16 years. I have extensive experience in the legal/administrative issues of cable television regulation at the local level. As the Cable Administrator, I am the general manager of the City's Governmental Access Television Channel. I function as a Television Producer/Director, with extesive experience in all postions of Television/Film production, a video systems engineer and also pretty handy with computers.
I have included three links to other cable television resources on the web. The first is to the Federal Communicaitons Commission Medai Bueru Fact sheet, an excellent explaination of federal cable regulation. The second is to the National Association of Telecommunicationa Officers and Advisors (NATOA), a trade group of other Cable Television Adminstrators. The third is the Alliance for Community Media which is a special interest group of for Public, Educational and Governemental Access television operators and users.
Please note that the advertisements on this page are not endorsements on my, or my employers, behalf.
I have included three links to other cable television resources on the web. The first is to the Federal Communicaitons Commission Medai Bueru Fact sheet, an excellent explaination of federal cable regulation. The second is to the National Association of Telecommunicationa Officers and Advisors (NATOA), a trade group of other Cable Television Adminstrators. The third is the Alliance for Community Media which is a special interest group of for Public, Educational and Governemental Access television operators and users.
Please note that the advertisements on this page are not endorsements on my, or my employers, behalf.
