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Adelphia Cable
releases terms
of contract
By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
The Board of Supervisors and the Washington Town Council will hold concurrent public hearings on the franchise agreement with Adelphia Cable Communications at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 16 in the Rappahannock Courthouse.
If the franchise agreement is approved by both governing bodies, it will represent approximately the midpoint in a process that began in 1989. It will take about two more years for cable TV service to be extended to most of the villages.
In the spring of 1989 a company interested in providing cable TV to Madison approached the Town Council about serving the town and perhaps Sperryville also. The company brought with them a proposed franchise agreement. That agreement would have given little control to the town or county.
County Administrator John McCarthy advised the supervisors and Town Council to adopt cable TV ordinances before negotiating a franchise. Ordinances were adopted, but the first firm did not apply for a franchise.
In Dec. 1989 Joseph Price and Richard Burke of Adelphia Communications, which provides cable TV in Front Royal and other parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York and Florida, approached the supervisors to negotiate a franchise to provide service for the county and town.
Mr. Price, Virginia regional manager, noted that his company already owned towers near the top of the mountain at Chester Gap, and thus would be able to provide cable TV without erecting additional towers.
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