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Virginia council hears draft Mediacom franchise response; asks cable commission to review
Summary
A city‑hired attorney reported Mediacom has offered extensive redlines to a proposed franchise renewal and pushed back on a council request for a short term; the council agreed to route the draft to the cable commission for review but commissioners lack a quorum to act formally.
A consultant representing Virginia reviewed negotiations with Mediacom over a franchise renewal for the city’s cable system and said the company is seeking material changes to a draft the city transmitted earlier this year.
Attorney Bob Vos told the Committee of the Whole that because Mediacom missed a prior administrative deadline to assert certain federal renewal rights, the city begins negotiations with some leverage. But he…
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