Cable / Telecom News

EastLink to buy Bluewater Cable

CLINTON, ON – EastLink, the fifth-largest Canadian cable company, has agreed to purchase Southwestern Ontario cable operator Bluewater TV Cable/Ex-Cen Cablevision from the Stinson family, Cartt.ca has learned. The purchase price is not known. The company serves about 7,000 total customers along the southeastern shores of Lake Huron and is based in Clinton, about 100 kms northwest of Kitchener. Bluewater has been one of the more progressive small operators in the country (actually, most of the independent operators still competing are pretty progressive) and offers digital cable, HDTV, phone, high speed Internet, and video on demand. This system is the...