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Commerce reported that they have had no complaints about the service provided since Adelphia took over the system.
Front Royal News managing editor Ralph Crabill said that he knew of no complaints about the service since Adelphia took over, but they took over a system that people were satisfied with.
In the county administrator’s office a secretary said they had also received no complaints about the system, but the company had not been very vigorous about extending the system into the county, and another company had applied for a franchise to do that.
Richard Burke, Adelphia’s manager in Front Royal, said that he is aware of the new request for a franchise, but Adelphia has already made plans to expand the system in Warren County. The old company required 35 houses per mile to expand into an area, but Adelphia is willing to expand into areas with as few as 15 houses per mile, Mr. Bufke said.
He said that 58 miles of additional service are currently under construction in Warren County and another 200 miles planned for 199091. Once that is completed, he said cable TV will be available for 80 to 85 percent of the houses in the county.
A check with the communities served in Page County brought a mixed response. Adelphia is rewiring the system, according to Clarence F. Edwards, mayor of the Town of Shenandoah. Under the old system Luray had the receiving station and wires ran from there to Shenandoah and on to Elkton.
The new system is to be wired with the receiving station in Shenandoah, with lines running north to Stanley and Luray and south to Elkton. “Different people have different ideas about it,” Mayor Edwards said, “but almost all are staying on. I have seen better cable, but the job is not completed yet.”
He said that when Adelphia took over the system, it immediately increased the rates, but more channels were added at the same time. He said in Shenandoah the new system should be ready in the spring or summer, but as far as he’s concerned “the service has already improved.”
In Stanley, Town Manager Martha Graves said, “We are in midstream right now. Since the purchase they have been in the process of up-dating and adding new channels. A lot of areas haven’t been
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