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Show faT nf an Atlanta nuita f By GARY. R. BLODGETT BOUNTIFUL - Bountiful residents may be watching cable television from their easy chair in the living room within the next year. BUT THE question facing the Bountiful City Council is which TV company will be allowed to install the cables to provide local residents with this new service. Two cable television companies com-panies have petitioned the council for that privilege, but the council has tabled the issue is-sue until Wednesday, Nov. 1. THE NEWEST company to make a bid for the service is a firm called Bountiful Cable Services Corporation, represented by Attorney Ar-den Ar-den Coombs of Ogden. However, another cable television firm, Wasatch Community Television, headed head-ed by State Senator Haven J. Barlow of Layton, has had a franchise for this service for the past eight years. REPRESENTATIVES of the two companies met and clashed for the first time at last week's council meeting. Hal Oyler of Daniels and Associates, Denver, representing Senator Barlow, explained that various circumstances cir-cumstances most of them federally controlled have prevented the company from beginning construction earlier. "BUT WE are nearly ready to begin," he told the council. "We have worked out most of our problems, have completed complet-ed our community studies and could be ready to start construction con-struction in the next four to six months." He said the cables could be installed'so that the first customers cus-tomers in Bountiful would be receiving cable TV service within a year. MR. OYLER emphasized that there would be no cost to the city for this service. "In fact," he said, "the city would be eligible for royalties from the sale of the service." He also explained that cost to customers would be about $a 95 per month, not including the movie channel. FIVE CHANNELS from Denver, San Francisco and Madison Square Garden in New York would provide the cable programs. Also included in this initial programming in Davis County are Kaysville, Layton, Clearfield, Sunset, North Salt Lake and the unincorporated area of south Davis County. "CENTER VILLE, Woods Cross, Farmington and other communities could be added soon after service is started in the previous six communities," communi-ties," said Senator Barlow. Mr. Oyler said that the company he represents has 33 cable television systems throughout the western United Unit-ed States with 180,000 subscribers and 30,000 box office customers. MR. COOMBS, representing represent-ing a local firm which would be a subsidiary of an Atlanta, Ga. company, said he is willing to make a $5,000 earnest ear-nest money offer to Bountiful for its future services in the city. He said his company would provide a full 12-channel selection of programming for a maximum of $8 per month per customer. MR. COOMBS said Bountiful Boun-tiful Cable Service would provide cable service only to Bountiful. "We can be ready to begin soon and will provide service within one year," he told the council. "We have cable TV in California and Georgia but do not intend to expand our services ser-vices in Utah outside Bountiful." Boun-tiful." ASKED IF that wouldn't be quite costly, Mr r f replied: r Coml)S! 7e wi" sPend up , ' million for the local stlt'1 and installation of cables Kn said. "But our mtm' he studies show ant?2 tiful area can supp rf ?; venture." v 1 ln's COUNCILMAN n I Perkins asked Mr. Coomh , about the organiza Z r structure (personnel-S3. his company and Mr. Coomi said that the firm ha"t been fully organized nor iid have a board of director f this time. at- Representatives of both nrms agreed that it would best if only one f company Z granted the franchise to servl-Bountiful servl-Bountiful as the city is 1 large enough for two cable lV stations. t |