By Staff
Buffalo, NY – Adelphia Communications' current ten-year franchise to provide cable television service in the city of Buffalo expires at the end of next year. The company has begun negotiations to renew the contract.
Adelphia president Ron Cooper has met with city officials to reassure them that the company will emerge from bankruptcy protection stronger and able to fulfill future commitments.
The Buffalo News cites Cooper as saying that Adelphia's Buffalo operation is among the company's strongest, and that major layoffs are not foreseen for Adelphia's local workforce of seventeen hundred.
Adelphia has also appointed two new members to its board of directors. They are E. Thayer Bigelow, Jr., a former television executive, and Kenneth Wolfe, a former executive at Hershey Foods.
They will replace outgoing board members Leslie Gelber and Pete Metros, who were in place prior to the company's bankruptcy.
In June, Adelphia said the four remaining pre-bankruptcy directors planned to step down from the nine-member board once replacements were found.