Former D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty made an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program this morning. So what did the former mayor have on his mind? Was he there to talk about the various scandals which have been uncovered since his successor, Vince Gray, came into office in January? Was he there to chat about the Navigators? Sulaimon Brown? The University of the District of Columbia? The impending appointment of Kaya Henderson? Well, no, he wasn’t there to talk about any of that. (Though one has to admit that the wry grin on Fenty’s face when host Mika Brzezinski asked him what was going on with him of late served as his comment on those matters.) But if you were pining for the former mayor’s viewpoint on the labor struggle in Wisconsin and the potential Presidential runs of Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump, well, this was the interview you’ve been waiting for.
We couldn’t help but notice this little nugget in Mike DeBonis’ must-read daily politics roundup this morning: according to McClatchy, cable channel TLC is planning on a TV movie which about the Chandra Levy murder. Somehow, it sounds even more low-brow than one would imagine such a production to be.
Quick, when I say “cable service in the District,” what springs to mind? Odds are, you’re thinking Comcast’s overall ineptitude and Verizon’s never-ending quest to get FiOS into D.C.’s living rooms. But while there’s little doubt that said topics represent the lion’s share of the headlines, Washingtonians may tend to forget that region’s less monopolistic cable operators have just as many foibles. According to postings on the Cleveland Park listserv, there are a group…
As we reported in August, the District is moving closer to ending Comcast’s virtual monopoly over cable television service in the city. Today the D.C. Office of Cable Television announced that a franchise agreement negotiated with Verizon for its fiber-optic service has been submitted to the D.C. Council for review. Don’t go running to Comcast and telling them where they can shove their notoriously bad service, though. According to the press release, if the D.C….
Don’t go storming in to Comcast’s service center in Northeast to return your DVRs and modems just yet, but you may be able to free yourself from the cable provider’s ubiquitous grip soon enough. The Examiner is reporting today that the D.C. Office of Cable Television and Verizon have reached an initial agreement to bring the provider’s fiber optic network, FiOS, to the District. The agreement, while not yet a done deal, would mean that…
