{"id":91094,"date":"2018-05-01T10:52:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T14:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=91094"},"modified":"2018-05-01T10:52:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T14:52:16","slug":"brindisi-sponsors-online-petition-in-an-effort-to-bring-cable-prices-down-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=91094","title":{"rendered":"Brindisi sponsors online petition in an effort to bring cable prices down to earth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Move comes following meeting with constituents who say frequent rate hikes from Spectrum must stop<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brindisi: Spectrum owner Charter Communications recently revealed a huge drop in its cable subscribers\u2014maybe it\u2019s time they see the writing on the wall<\/em><\/p>\n

Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi today announced he has started an online petition drive asking the New York State Public Service Commission and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate frequent rate hikes by Spectrum owner Charter Communications in recent months.<\/p>\n

The petition follows a meeting Brindisi held with constituents in Rome last week\u2014many of whom said their cable and Internet rates have been steadily increasing since Spectrum took over for Time-Warner Cable two years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard from a number of people, both at the meeting I held and afterwards who are looking at cable rates that have almost doubled over the past year or two.\u00a0 Many of these customers simply cannot afford a rate increase of that amount, and through this petition, I am giving them the chance to weigh in with state and federal officials who can hopefully do something about this issue,\u201d Brindisi said.<\/p>\n

Brindisi said Charter Communications revealed last week that it has lost more than 122,000 of its video subscribers in the first quarter of 2018, which resulted in a 12-percent drop in its stock price by the end of the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany Spectrum customers are finding other alternatives and cancelling service, so maybe it\u2019s time the company sees the writing on the wall.\u00a0 Unfortunately, many seniors have told me they don\u2019t want to watch television on their computer, or get a satellite dish.\u00a0 I am hoping that if enough people sign this petition, Spectrum will have to stop their unreasonable practices,\u201d Brindisi said.<\/p>\n

Brindisi says petitions will be sent to the PSC and the FTC.\u00a0 To sign the petition, visit http:\/\/nyassembly.gov\/mem\/Anthony-Brindisi\/story\/81135<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Move comes following meeting with constituents who say frequent rate hikes from Spectrum must stop Brindisi: Spectrum owner Charter Communications recently revealed a huge drop in its cable subscribers\u2014maybe it\u2019s time they see the writing on the wall Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi today announced he has started an online petition drive asking the New York State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-nHg","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Brindisi-head-shot-color-10.14.jpg?fit=490%2C700&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}