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Originally Posted by mersey70
All I know (because I live in an area that was served) that what was known as Rediffusion Cablevision was eventually known as Metro. This would have been (I think) in the very early 90's. It plodded along providing a mix of BSB's channels and then BSkyB's (it only had four streams available). The Rediffusion Cablevision service provided a mix of channel's until BSB's launch but was required by the IBA to carry their channels under a 'must carry' law.
Nynex entered our area (again I think) around 1994 and if I am honest I have no idea when Metro closed it's operations here, it could have been before Nynex started. The cabling and manholes are still widely in place though, all branded as 'Rediffusion' which had piped radio and BBC/ITV around here for decades until it started providing channels like Music Box, ScreenSport and the likes.
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Thanks, mersey70.
And again in that circumstance... assuming Metro Cable was purchased by Cabletel/NTL/VM, it means VM also owns that old infrastructure in addition to Nynex's. It would have been odd to think of the two services competing... although I guess the narrowband operators saw their death knell when the cable franchises were awarded and knew they couldn't compete. If they'd have bought the narrowband infrastructure from the outset, they could have saved some money on ducts etc.
Still, its a shame in areas where cable TV is no longer available.