Monday, March 2, 2020

updated 8 pm - Cable Subscribers in Medford

1,553,651 @ 7:58 pm 
1,553,449 page visits 3:32 pm

Comcast. 10,770
Verizon 4,888.
2019 cable subscribers. Medford

Joe Viglione will be speaking to the Medford City Council on March 10, 2020 - the topic will be Moving the Access Station to Medford Square and P/E/G Crisis 2020
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 Cable Subscribers in Medford and Access Television
By Joe Viglione

   The 2019 Cable Subscriber Counts in Medford are 4,888  customers for Verizon and 10,770 customers for Comcast. For this information we thank Cory at the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable.  That makes a total of fifteen thousand, six hundred and fifty eight! 15,658 cable subscribers.

POPULATION OF MEDFORD
According to a site called Suburban Stats dot org the current (2019) Medford population stands at 56,173

Another website – World Population Review dot com has the 2020 population of Medford at 57,765.  Wikipedia has the 2010 stat at 56,173 (the same as the 2019 for Suburban Stats??? – odd) and for 2017 Wikipedia says 57,797.  Wikipedia, of course, is prone to whatever number a reader posts, so careful with that stat


So I have stated in the past decade or so that we are hovering around 60,000 people as an estimate.  With the data noted above let’s call it 57,765 for the sake of this article.   Close to 58,000 people with almost 16,000 cable TV subscribers in Medford is a lot of revenue in franchise fees.