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Article: Charter Temporarily Halts Calif. Adult-PPV Launch
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- August 24, 1998
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Although local regulators have no authority over pay-per-view content, Charter Communications Inc. has decided, at least temporarily, to bow to community demands in one Southern California city, shelving its plans to launch adult-PPV selections there.
The City Council of Azusa, a Los Angeles suburb with a population of 45,000, voted recently to reject plans by the operator to include Spice and Adam & Eve among the 17 channels that it will add when its rebuild is completed.
The city's name was conjured up by an early developer, and it represents his dream that the community would offer everything from "A to Z in the USA" for residents. But the City Council ...