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Adams Cable

American cable provider

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ4680304
Source-derived summary

Adams Cable was a local cable television and Internet provider that served northeast Pennsylvania along with rural Broome, Chenango and Delaware counties in New York.

In April 2024, Adams CATV, Inc., operator of Adams Cable Service, agreed to be acquired by Blue Ridge Communications, following regulatory approval proceedings in New York and Pennsylvania, and the sale closed in October 2024. Adams Cable was maintained as a separate operation until November 2025, when operations were fully transferred to Blue Ridge Communications.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Adams Cable” as american cable provider. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1949. The account is most persuasive where Adams, Cable and American can be independently traced.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4680304. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from Adams Cable” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.