• A Cablevision cable customer pays more for cable than the average non-Cablevision cable subscriber in the same state (9% more expensive in CT)
  Source: FCC and GAO reports, as well as Kagan data from 2003
  
  
• Cablevision's average price is about 14% higher than the national average for providing the same service, and offers less of a service (fewer channels)
  Source: FCC and GAO reports, as well as Kagan data from 2003
  
  
• Cablevision offers 6 fewer channels, and charges about 2% (does that sound like a lot?)* more than the average in NY for expanded basic than other providers
  
  
• In NJ, Cablevision has the highest price expanded basic package and charges about 2% more with 5 fewer channels
  
  
• ESPN has signed long-term extensions with cable operators, who have lower prices than Cablevision (Charter and Cox)
  
  
• Due to a pattern of complaints, the Better Business Bureau gave an unsatisfactory ranking to Cablevision of Raritan Valley (Piscataway, NJ)

Cablevision's Rhetoric is Self-serving; This is NOT About the Consumer,
but About Profit Margins

• Programming costs and ESPN are not driving higher cable bills
  
  
• Programming represents only 20-25% of Cablevision’s total expenditures per year (Kim Armor needs to confirm)*
  
  
• Cablevision is spending only $11 per subsubscriber per month for programming on its $48 expanded basic service (Kim Armor needs to confirm)*