Article: CABLE STATIONS RING IN NEW YEAR WITH CHANGES, CHARGES.(SHOWTIME)

Byline: ROB OWEN TV/Radio writer

Local cable services are preparing to wish subscribers a happy new year with additional channels, and in some cases, additional charges.

Time Warner will add five channels to its Albany and Troy/Battenkill systems and even more channels will debut on the upgraded Saratoga system. The new channels arrive Monday (except Animal Planet, which moves in Jan. 1 to take the spot of C-SPAN, which replaces the departing WWOR); rates go up effective with subscribers' January bill. Subscribers should have received specific information about rate changes in a mailing from Time Warner last month. Schenectady's TCI will add three ...

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