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• Seren, Ameritech Add Cable Franchises.

  - 1999-07-12

  Seren Innovations Inc. and Ameritech New Media have unveiled their latest moves to acquire cable franchises that put them in competition with local incumbents. The video arm of Northern States Power Co., Seren has applied for a fifth franchis ...

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• Ameritech Gains 17th Ill. Franchise.

  - 1999-01-25

  MOUNT PROSPECT ILL. - Ameritech New Media picked up its second cable franchise of 1999 last week, when it signed on to provide video service here. Officials in the Chicago suburb of 21,600 households voted unanimously to grant the video arm...

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• Ameritech Starts Chicago Service.

  - 1998-12-14

  CHICAGO - Ameritech New Media has lit up its first customers in Chicago, just four months after receiving a franchise to compete on the Windy City's South Side. The Americast programming service is now available in the Chicago Lawn neighborho ...

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• Ameritech Nabs Chicago-Area Franchise.

  - 1998-10-19

  The city of Oak Forest, Ill., has become the latest Chicago-area community to sign up for Ameritech New Media's cable service. Officials in the Chicago suburb last week inked a 15-year franchise with the MSO, placing it on a collision course w...

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• Chicago Gives Telco Nod for South Side

  - 1998-08-03

  Ameritech New Media has broken into its biggest market yet, as the Chicago City Council voted to give the telco a 15year cable franchise for the far South Side of the city. Meanwhile, the city's negotiations with ANM have delayed refranchising ta ...

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• Ameritech New Media Lands Ohio Franchise

  - 1998-05-11

  Ameritech New Media kept building its cluster in the Cleveland suburbs last week by signing another franchise in an area dominated by Cablevision Systems Corp. The company reported that it had inked a deal with the city of Middleburg Heights, a c ...

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• Ameritech hits franchise roadblock. (Ameritech New Media)

  - 1997-12-08

  Ameritech New Media has run into a roadblock in its attempt to secure a franchise in the community of Park Ridge, Ill., a Chicago suburb of 37,000 residents. Negotiations had stalled last week over the city's insistence that advertising revenues Ameritech...

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• Ameritech adds franchises. (cable TV systems)(Brief Article)

  - 1997-11-24

  The Cleveland suburb of Westlake recently granted Ameritech its latest cable franchise in Ohio, bringing to 20 the number of such franchises Ameritech has gained in the state. The Westlake City Council granted Ameritech's New Media subsidiary a 15- The Cleveland suburb of Westlake...

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• Ameritech New Media: choice works for consumers. (Ameritech New Media Inc.)

  - 1997-10-27

  Just over two years ago, Ameritech New Media Inc. negotiated its first franchises in Wayne County, Mich. Today, ANM has 55 cable franchises, encompassing more than 1 million homes in Illinois, Michigan and Ohio. Since turning on our first customer in Just over two years ago,...

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• Court sides with Jones in Illinois. (Jones Intercable contract dispute with Naperville, IL)

  - 1997-08-04

  Naperville says it still won't allow Jones to modify its contract An Illinois city has no plans to back off a legal dispute with Jones Intercable despite a recent federal district court ruling that appears to favor Jones. ...

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