Garden Grove : Citizen Input Sought in Cable TV Service Review

If you’d like to praise or criticize Rogers Cablesystems, which has been providing cable television service to residents for four years, you’ll get the chance at a public hearing tonight.

The City Council will preside over the hearing, which will include reviews of the system by the city and the company and time for the public to air any complaints. The meeting will be held in council chambers at the Community Meeting Center, 11300 Stanford Ave., starting at 7.

Garden Grove’s contract with the firm called for a three-year review to be held last August, but the session was postponed because the two sides were embroiled in a lawsuit over proposed rate increases. The review was scheduled for Thursday when the suit was finally settled out of court last October.

Under the terms of the settlement, each of the estimated 13,000 subscribers was to be given a rebate of up to $18, but the increases were allowed to take effect. The City Council, said a city spokesperson, is “generally pleased” with the company’s performance.