Others may welcome it as a way to break an unsatisfactory local cable monopoly and get a better picture in the bargain.

This is why we need to work on a local and state level to get rid of regional cable monopolies.

The cable monopoly as it exists today makes fulfillment of this potential all but impossible.

Combine this excessive, exclusive franchise period with deregulation, and the inevitable result has been a cable monopoly.

For the most part, the family has also insisted on sticking close to the business it knows best: operating local cable monopolies.

The dish that got us out from under the cable monopoly: It wasn't easy putting it there.

I again called my local cable monopoly.

This has happened everywhere, every chance that the cable monopolies can get away with it.

The public-access channels, designed to give community groups and government agencies access to the local cable monopoly, presented a thornier issue.

After 15 years of cable monopolies, almost anything would be an improvement.