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City 'Desperate' for Cable Contracts After TV Snafu
After 'Housewives' is mistakenly broadcast in Spanish, City Council members tell regulators six years is too long to make a new deal.
By Rong-Gong Lin II
Times Staff Writer

October 4, 2005

A day after Adelphia Communications Corp. erroneously broadcast "Desperate Housewives" in Spanish to 175,000 Los Angeles cable customers, City Council members rebuked its regulators for the slow pace of negotiating new contracts â€â€