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October 1998

 

Time Warner Cable Report

Subscriber Totals - October 1998

  Beginning Ending Net Gain/Loss

Full Cable Service (excluding Basic only)

65,827

65,840

13

Basic Only

2,698

2,752

54

Bulk Units

2,910

2,910

0

Commercial Customers

1,015

1,019

4

System Total - Indianapolis

72,450

72,521

71

HBO

29,228

29,470

242

Cinemax

19,750

19,162

-588

Showtime

12,494

12,137

-357

Disney

3,360

3,270

-90

Starz

5,422

6,630

1,208

Total Residential Pays

70,254

70,669

415

Homes Passed

154,813

154,892

79

Additional Outlets

41,177

41,616

439

Operator's Incoming Calls Report - October 1998

  Month YTD Last 12 Months

Total Calls Received

53,703

527,153

625,411

Total Calls Handled

52,558

516,112

607,613

# of Calls Answered Within 30 Seconds

48,551

471,842

526,503

% of Calls Answered Within 30 Seconds

92.4%

91.5%

86.7%

# of Calls Abandoned After 30 Seconds

255

3,504

7,477

% of Calls Abandoned After 30 Seconds

0.5%

0.7%

1.2%

Average Answer Time ( in seconds)

10.0

9.5

19.7

Busy Rate

2.4%

25.1%

21.2%

Total Hours Staffed

1,488

14,512

17,400

Service Interruption Report - October 1998

  Upgrade Non-Upgrade Combined YTD Last 12 Months

Total # of Outages

27

73

100

1,413

1,595

# of Planned Outages

27

11

38

638

753

% of Planned Outages

100%

15.1%

38.0%

43.7%

47.2%

# of Unplanned Outages

0

62

62

775

842

% of Unplanned Outages

0

84.9%

62.0%

56.3%

52.8%

# of Subscribers Out

5,994

6,789

12,783

423,267

595,834

Total Subscriber Outage Hours

51,713

16,416

68,129

1,507,969

1,760,224

Total System Customer Hours

N/A

N/A

61,793,664

625,752,051

739,789,419

Reliability %

N/A

N/A

99.9%

99.8%

99.8%

Total Duration Hours

239.0

90.0

330

3,903

4,471.6

Average Duration per Outage (Hours)

8.9

1.2

3.3

3.2

3.2

Average Customers per Outage

222

93

128

346

5,275

 Service Call Report - October 1998

  Month YTD Last 12 Months

Total Service Calls Received

3,405

39,838

46,304

Total Service Calls Scheduled

1,882

21,577

25,490

Total Service Calls Completed

1,818

20,969

24,765

Same Day

341

6,273

7,400

Within 24 Hours

1,088

11,048

13,366

% Within 24 Hours

78.6%

82.9%

83.9%

Within 36 Hours

380

3,136

3,302

% Within 36 Hours

99.5%

97.7%

97.2%

After 36 Hours

9

512

697

% After 36 Hours

0.5%

2.3%

2.8%

Installation Report - October 1998

  Month YTD Last 12 Months

Total Installs Scheduled

4,969

43,047

51,461

Total Installs Completed

3,990

35,840

42,802

# Within 7 Days

3,228

29,776

35,150

Customer Requests After 7 Days

762

6,044

7,620

# After 7 Days

0

20

32

% Within 7 Days

100.0%

99.9%

99.9%

Construction Report - October 1998

# Construction Location

1.

Madison Apartments - 53 Units - .1 Aerial Miles

2.

Washington Apartments - 22 units - .03 Aerial Miles

3.

Blue Triangle Residence Hall - 96 Units - .05 Aerial Miles

4.

Meridian Apartments - 50 Units - .02 Aerial Miles

5.

Dialysis Institute of Indiana - 1 Unit - .04 U/G Miles

6.

Ramada Inn - 116 Units - .07 U/G Miles

7.

Westview Healthplex - 1 Unit - .21 U/G Miles

Public Affairs Monthly Report

October 1998

Production:

  • Produced and aired a commercial promoting the Amy Stevens Jazz Event at the ArtsGarden as part of our joint marketing effort with the Bravo Network.
  • Produced a spot promoting the KoKo Taylor concert at the Walker Theatre as part of our season sponsorship of the Walker.
  • Produced a promotional spot for the Edyvean Theatre’s production of On Golden Pond as part of our season sponsorship of the Edyvean.
  • Produced a promotional spot for the Indianapolis Opera production of -- The Flying Dutchman. Time Warner Cable is the opera’s media sponsor for the 1998 - 1999 season.
  • Ran the Indiana Repertory Theatre’s spot promoting Having Our Say as part of our season sponsorship of the theater.
  • Produced and aired a spot promoting Hope Floats, the Sandra Bullock film featured at our Independent Film season opener at the ArtsGarden. In cooperation with The Independent Film Channel, Nuvo Weekly and the Indianapolis Arts council, we will be featuring independent films at the ArtsGarden throughout the winter season.

Community Involvement:

  • As part of our major sponsorship of the Circle City Classic Football Game to raise scholarship monies for traditionally Black colleges, Time Warner Cable produced three promotional spots, secured veteran movie actor Richard Roundtree to serve as Grand Marshall of the Classic Parade, and in cooperation with Starz/BET, donated $5,000 to the Indianapolis Public Schools Foundation during a presentation on the floor of the RCA Dome during the nationally televised football game.
  • Held a backgrounding meeting with Susan Scott from the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications System (IHETS) and Dottie Hancock, Executive Director of the Indiana Cable Telecommunications Association, to discuss how our Cable in the Classroom program could be used by IHETS’ statewide distribution system.
  • Provided sponsorship to a Sister Cities reception recognizing Indianapolis’ alliance with Cologne, Germany.
  • Hosted the judging for the New York Festival’s International Competition for TV News and Public Affairs. Al Aldridge served as jury chairman and hosted local judges Jim Shella, political reporter for the local CBS affiliate; Amos Brown, WAV-53 talk show host; Vanessa Amos, director of the Indiana Black Expo Youth Video Institute; Carolene Mays, General Manager of the Indianapolis Recorder; Ken Montgomery, General Manager of Government Ch. 16; and Carmen Hansen Rivera, local Hispanic community leader and host of HOLA USA.
  • Hosted the first Odyssey Local Programming Committee meeting in our studio where members developed criteria for programming that will be locally inserted on the Odyssey Channel.
  • · Conducted our annual United Way Campaign and exceeded our employee pledge goal of $12,000 by over $3,000 and improved employee participation numbers by 10% over last year.
  • Presented Cable in the Classroom workshops at IPS #81 and Holy Angels grade school and mailed Cable in the Classroom materials to schools and school board members in our franchise areas.
  • PR Manager Al Aldridge, who serves as president of the board of directors for the state Hemophilia organization, attended the National Hemophilia Annual Meeting.
  • Provided sponsorship to the Indiana Leukemia Society’s annual fund-raising dinner.
  • Provided support to Marion County Sheriff Jack Cottey’s "Turn Off the Violence Campaign" and have contacted Court TV to develop a partnership between the network, Time Warner Cable and the Turn Off the Violence project
 
 

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