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Article: National Cable Conglomerate Declares War on Local Contender in New Jersey.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- May 16, 2000
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May 17--The cable wars continue to heat up in New Jersey.
Cablevision System Corp. has filed notice that it wants to go head-to-head with a rival cable operator, RCN Corp. of Princeton, in nine towns in Morris and Somerset counties.
The two companies have battled before in the Boston area, although Cablevision last month agreed to sell its systems there to AT&T. RCN is targeting Cablevision and Comcast cable franchises in dozens of towns in Hudson, Essex, Union and Bergen counties.
Not long ago, it was unheard of for cable companies to encroach on each other's monopolies. But the rise of companies such as RCN, whose strategy is to move in on ...