Local News in Brief : Cable TV Delay Sought
United Cable Television of Los Angeles has asked a City Council committee to extend to the end of the year the deadline for completion of the long-delayed East San Fernando Valley cable TV system.
The Industry and Economic Development Committee is expected to approve the extension, which would be the fourth since the company won the cable franchise in 1983 on the promise that it would complete the system by December, 1985. The latest extension request has been supported by Susan Herman, head of the city Department of Telecommunications.
The three-member committee, however, delayed a vote on the extension because it could not agree on a separate but related issue of whether to fine United, and if so by how much, for failing to meet earlier deadlines for completing segments of the system.
United has installed about 600 miles of the 935-mile system and is serving 26,200 out of a potential 185,000 homes in the east Valley, company President William Cullen said Thursday.
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