is a
United States cable service provider and subsidiary of
The Washington Post Company , functioning as it own self-contained corporation within its parent. The company's name and current focus dates back to
1997 , prior to that time the company was known as ''Post-Newsweek Cable''.
CableOne provides cable service mostly to small rural communities in nineteen states in the midwestern, southern, and western US. As of
July 2004 , about 720,000 subscribers receive basic service and about 300,000 receive premium programming. The company offers digital cable and its
Broadband Internet unit, known as CableONE.net, has over 200,000 subscribers.
CableOne has swapped its
California cable systems and customers with operations in
Oregon and
Utah belonging to the main US cable operator
Comcast .
