The rule would require cable and satellite providers to clearly state the total cost, including fees for TV station signals and regional sports programming, as a prominent, single line item.
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Woolwich wild food fan competing for ‘MasterChef’ title
Nina Interlandi Bell made venison dumplings during an audition round in May and now is among 20 contestants vying for the Fox show’s $250,000 prize.
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Supreme Court upholds Maine cable-customer protection law
The court declined to hear an appeal in a suit seeking to overturn the law, which requires cable companies to prorate customers’ bills for a final month of service.
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Maine can require cable companies to pay refunds for canceled service, court says
The court found that Maine’s law does not constitute an unlawful state regulation of cable rates.
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Appeals court backs Maine law to save public access channels from ‘digital Siberia’
The cable industry challenged a law that requires cable TV providers to restore public access programming to low channel numbers.
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Maine abandons fight for law to require à la carte cable TV service
In February, a federal appeals court sided with the cable companies, which had argued that Maine’s law was unconstitutional.
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Cable companies win a round in lawsuit over Maine’s law to let customers pick channels
A federal appeals court rules that an injunction barring the law from taking effect is valid.
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Spectrum owes over $142,000 to southern Maine towns, audit alleges
The cable internet and TV provider underpaid fees to 9 Cumberland County towns in 2017 and 2018, according to an audit commissioned by the municipalities.
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Spectrum house calls spark health concerns for worker
An employee says technicians are still being sent into customers’ homes to service internet and cable TV, without sufficient protection.
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Judge upholds Maine law to rescue public access channels from digital wilderness
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that cable TV providers have to move community programming back to lower-numbered channels that are easier to find.