Price increases could show up soon on the bills of some Bright House Networks customers in Pasco County with cable TV or Internet service. But many subscribers with bundled packages of multiple services will be spared from any rate hike, according to Joe Durkin, senior director of corporate communications for Bright House. ...more

March 4, 2009

Amid hoopla and frustration over the switch to digital television, one thing is for sure. Some companies are making out quite well. ...more

February 27, 2009

Amid hoopla and frustration over the switch to digital television, one thing is for sure. Some companies are making out quite well. ...more

February 19, 2009

I hope you can help or tell me whether there is anything I can do about this issue with a homeowner's management firm. ...more

February 1, 2009

The article "Comcast Offers More Channels" by Bill Rettew in Highlands Today, Sept. 16, was downright gullible. Rettew makes no mention of the channels Comcast no longer offers. Rettew describes the changes as "good news," then quotes Comcast executives who say that they listen to customers. When I called Comcast to complain I was only able to speak to voicemail. Both the CBS station in Fort Myers and the ABC station in Orlando have been dropped from Basic Cable. Comcast once carried Sebring's local station but this also has been dropped in the last year. Do they think Highlands County is in the Tampa area? ...more

November 1, 2008

Retro '60s drama "Mad Men" and legal thriller "Damages" were poised to take a shot at making Emmy Awards history Sunday as basic cable's first best-series nominees. ...more

September 21, 2008

LOS ANGELES - "Mad Men," AMC's sleek drama set in the advertising world circa 1960, and FX's legal thriller "Damages" made Emmy nominations history Thursday as the first basic cable programs to gain best-series nods. ...more

July 17, 2008

Embattled cable company Century Communications is selling its contracts for two New Tampa communities to Bright House Networks. ...more

June 7, 2008

LIVE OAK PRESERVE - Embattled cable company Century Communications is selling its contracts for two New Tampa communities to Bright House Networks. Two weeks after he denied negotiating with Bright House, Century General Manager Bill McKissock confirmed that the cable giant would be the new service provider for Live Oak Preserve and its neighboring town house community, The Hammocks. In his May 23 letter to customers, McKissock wrote that he expected the deal to close "on or about May 31st." But Bright House spokesman Joe Durkin said Monday that the two sides are working out the final details. ...more

June 3, 2008

Hillsborough County will not challenge Bright House Networks over the cable company's decision to move government and educational programming to higher channel numbers and charge customers to access those channels. ...more

January 4, 2008