Watching your favorite television show on EPB’s Fi-TV connection will cost you anywhere from $2 to $11 more a month, starting in January.
EPB announced Monday it is boosting its cable TV rates by more than 13 percent in 2017 – the first rate increase for the utility since January 2015 and only the third increase since the municipal utility began its TV service in 2009.
EPB President David Wade said the higher rates are needed to cover higher content charges for television programming.
“Across the television industry, networks are charging higher and higher rates for their content,” Wade said in a statement announcing the rate increase. “For two years, we’ve held the line on TV pricing for our customers despite double-digit increases in the fees networks charge for programming, but unfortunately, we’ve reached a point where it is necessary to pass these content costs along to subscribers.”
EPB has 79,608 fiber residential customers, and 56,488 of those now subscribe to one of the three Fi TV options offered by EPB.