Community Home Entertainment
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1983 (as a cable company, defunct 2007) |
| Headquarters | The Bronx,New York ,United States |
| Products | Analog Cable Digital Cable High Speed Internet |
| Website | https://web.archive.org/web/20061130143939/http://chesma.com/ |
Community Home Entertainment(CHE) is a former American cable television company which began providinganalogcable services tothe Bronx,New York,in 1983[1]with most customers residing inCo-op City.Since then they have grown rapidly extending their offerings to broadbandInternetanddigital cableservices.
History[edit]
Co-op Citybuilt-in TV cable network of the 35 buildings made set-topantennasunworkable when the state's largest Mitchell-Lama complex was built in the pre-cable 1960s, so each unit was connected by cable to a master antenna to receive broadcast TV channels free and in-house channels for a fee. CHE had only 16 employees dynamically servicing thousands of cable and high-speed Internet customers. CHE provided television services at affordable rates below the competition. Around 2004 the company launch digital cable service. Future plans were to includeVOIPhome calling, but that never happened.Cablevisionpurchased CHE in 2007, and agreed to spend $300,000 in building improvements to the cable infrastructure. Cablevision was purchased byAltice USAin 2015.[2]
References[edit]
- ^Linux Internet & Network Security Solutions
- ^Roberts, Jim (September 15, 1915)."Cablevision deal announced to sell company to European firm".Co-op City Times.50(37): 1–2.