Your front page article “Council may go live” states that the cable company has exclusive rights to Malibu. This is not true. You also state that this is common with other cities. This is also not true.
Some cities have as many as three cable companies providing service in one franchise area. A few years back, I did call the other cable companies inviting them to provide service in tandem with Falcon, our cable company at the time, but no one was interested.
James Scott