{"id":2465,"date":"2014-04-15T09:14:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T14:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2021-04-22T11:55:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T16:55:25","slug":"save-west-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/save-west-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Save West Virginia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Comcast has done it again!&nbsp; We felt extremely compelled to write about the city of Huntington, West Virginia after reading an article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herald-dispatch.com\/x56130390\/Customers-complain-about-Comcast-changes\">Huntington Herald-Dispatch<\/a>. Comcast, the most hated company in America, has now turned to terrorizing the town of Huntington. In this article Sabrina Thomas, a librarian at Marshall University, had such a horrible experience with Comcast she cut the cable cord. She turned on her TV one day and noticed she was missing channels without any form of notification from Comcast. Do you know how many times she was transferred before she was able to speak to someone? Six times! And it\u2019s five times too many if you ask us. Do you know what they told her when she was finally able to speak to someone? <b>She wasn\u2019t paying enough and had to upgrade.<\/b> This is an outrage, if you\u2019ve been paying for these channels, how can they just take them away? Comcast only thinks about how to gain another dollar, and not how their actions will affect their customers.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving hundreds of angry phone calls from the community, Scott Caserta, a councilman in Huntington, called Comcast\u2019s corporate office and was told in order for customers to keep the channels they already had, they had no choice but to upgrade to a higher package. Well that makes sense; pay more for what you already have. Whenever you use your microwave do you have to pay an additional fee to hit start? At Antennas Direct there are no hidden fees or additional charges for any of our products.<\/p>\n<p>Comcast is the only cable provider in Huntington, leaving many residents feeling stuck in an unfair situation. We want to reach out to West Virginia and let them know, there is life without cable! You can watch high definition broadcast television without cable, and with an antenna there are no additional charges or hidden fees. &nbsp;You no longer have to suffer at the hands of <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2014\/04\/08\/congratulations-to-comcast-your-2014-worst-company-in-america\/\">The Worst Company in America<\/a>, it\u2019s time to set yourself free!<\/p>\n<p>Check back with us for our interview with Sabrina Thomas and what life has been like since cutting the cable cord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comcast has done it again!&nbsp; We felt extremely compelled to write about the city of Huntington, West Virginia after reading an article in the Huntington Herald-Dispatch. Comcast, the most hated company in America, has now turned to terrorizing the town of Huntington. 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