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Sawyer Bowman, a ninth-grader at Woodlawn School, won a $1,000 prize and earned a visit from the C-SPAN bus (at right) for his recent documentary on Flint, Mich.
Sawyer, the son of Dwayne and Karen Bowman, spends time most summers in Flint, visiting his mother’s relatives. Watching the town slowly decline due to the shuttering of […]

The MI-Connection cable system, owned by Davidson and Mooresville, has issued its first quarterly progress report, including a review of financial results that it says shows the sytem is ahead of budget. The report also says subscribers have risen 4.9 percent since the towns acquired the system in December, to the current 15,826. And officials […]

The board of the town-owned MI-Connection cable system plans to ask Davidson and Mooresville for an additional $12.5 million. The towns had said previously they would need more money because the price tag to buy the system last December was $11 million more than expected. But the extra capital also includes money for new, unanticipated […]

WATCH THE BOBCATS
Upcoming Bobcats games on FSN South and SportsSouth, available on MI-Connection cable:
Wed., Apr. 9, 7:30 pm - @ Knicks - SS
Sat., Apr. 12, 7 pm - @Indiana - FSN
Tues., Apr. 15, 7:30 pm - @Nets, FSN
Wed., Apr. 16, 7 pm - vs. 76ers, SS

Tuesday’s announcement in Charlotte about a new cable TV […]

New channels
“Expanded Basic” subscribers
Turner Classic Movies
Digital cable subscribers
Fox Business Network, Oxygen, Fine Living Network, DIY, SoapNet, Boomerang, The Biography Channel, Toon Disney, History International, MTV2
High definition
TBS HD, TNT HD
Premium movie channels
Starz Multiplexes, Cinemax Multiplexes, HBO Multiplexes

(Originally published Wednesday, April 2, 2008; updated Sunday, April 4, 2008)
The town-owned MI-Connection cable system has announced plans […]

MI-Connection needs another $5 million to pay for upgrades because the cable system is in worse shape than originally known, The Charlotte Observer reported Sunday. Officials of the system, which is owned by the towns of Davidson and Mooresville, told the paper the extra money might be covered by existing cash flow. Critics of the […]

Have you switched your Adelphia or Road Runner email address to the new MI-Connection system yet? If not, customers have until March 18 to make the change, James “Junior” Miller, general manager of the cable system, told the Davidson Town Board Tuesday.

Time Warner has received cable franchises from the state so it can legally serve new customers it has inherited in north Mecklenburg, Davidson and Mooresville, The Charlotte Observer reports this morning (Jan. 10). The paper also reports that cable rates are rising again this year for Time Warner’s Mecklenburg customers.

The manager of the new MI-Connection cable system acknowledged Tuesday that callers to customer service and technical support lines are facing longer-than-desired wait times. But he said the company is hiring extra staff to cut delays. He also said the company faced two major “glitches” after MI-Connection took over the system Dec. 19 from Time-Warner […]

(updated 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007) The local cable TV and internet service officially changed hands Wednesday at 6 p.m., when Time Warner Cable, which had been running the system, handed off to MI-Connection, a new consortium owned by the towns of Davidson and Mooresville. Officials said things went smoothly, though some internet customers […]