Blue Stream (company)

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Blue Stream
Industry Telecommunications
Headquarters Coral Springs, FL
Products cable television, cable telephone, broadband
Website www.mybluestream.com

Blue Stream provides cable television, cable telephone, DVR, and up to 1 GIG Internet speed broadband services to customers in the Florida communities of Coral Springs and Weston. [1]

Previously named Coral Springs Cablevision, the Coral Springs portion of the company was purchased by Schurz Communications in 1978 who changed the name to Advanced Cable Communications. [2]

On November 1, 1998, Advanced Cable Communications purchased the portion of their system located in Weston from Gulf & Pacific Communications, L.P. [3]

In August 2016, Schurz sold Advanced Cable Communications to Twin Point Capital and was renamed Blue Stream in February 2017. [4]

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References

  1. "About us" section of corporate website Archived January 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Google Finance profile for Advanced Cable Communications
  3. "Advanced Cable Communications - Schurz Communications Inc". Archived from the original on 2017-06-29. Retrieved 2017-07-05.
  4. "Blue Stream CEO to Customers: 'This Network is Going to be in Better Shape Than it has Ever Been Before'". 2017-08-10.