Local News in Brief : Cable Work to Affect TV in Sherman Oaks
Television service to about 11,000 homes in Sherman Oaks will be temporarily interrupted during the next two weeks while engineers begin rebuilding a 20-year-old cable system, officials of Century Cable said Monday.
Technicians will replace amplifiers on utility poles and under streets between 2 and 8 a.m. through Sept. 15, said Steve Rosenthal, general manager of the cable company.
Service will be off for about 15 minutes at a time to group of 200 homes, Rosenthal said. He said the work will launch a $30-million renovation project that will include installation of fiber-optic cables and new converter boxes to his firm’s 33,500 subscribers.
Rosenthal said Sherman Oaks was picked as the starting point for the project because its hilly neighborhoods have the oldest cable lines in the San Fernando Valley.
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