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Sweetheart Deal
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Business New Haven
4/20/1998
By: BNH
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Yale will pay just $5 a month for students' cable television
The average Joe who wants cable TV for his New Haven home pays $33.17 per month for basic service. Under an agreement hammered out between Yale and the Philadelphia-based Comcast Cablevision, the university will pay just $5 a month per connection.
Yale has agreed to pay Comcast $108,000 each academic year for basic cable service. In return, the university will guarantee 2,400 connections, which translates into $5 per month per connection.
The 39-channel basic service will be included in a $200 “per-pillow” mandatory student communications fee which will likely be instituted for the 1998-99 academic years, which will also include student data ports and Internet access.
An optional 22-channel package will be available to Yale students at a cost of $17 a month. The premium package would include such cable channels as MTV, ESPN and CNN.
The Yale deal is at least twice as sweet as the one Southern Connecticut State University was about to conclude with Comcast; SCSU was negotiating to pay between $10 and $12 a month per line for basic service, according to a report in the Yale Daily News.
However, a Business New Haven call to Richard Farricielli, SCSU's associate dean of student affairs, informing him of the terms of the Yale cable deal, appear to have stalled talks between SCSU and Comcast. As of April 15, Farricielli reported that the two sides were still negotiating.
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