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Executive Department News Release Contact: Doug Buell, Community Information Officer [PHONE REDACTED] [PHONE REDACTED] [EMAIL REDACTED] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 2, 2014 City surveys public to gauge cable service, future cable-related needs MARYSVILLE – City of Marysville officials are asking local residents to take an online cable community survey to gauge attitudes toward cable television service and to determine future cable-related service needs. The City is currently in the franchise renewal process with local cable purveyors Comcast Corp. that serves most of Marysville with cable, internet and phone serves, and Wave Broadband, which primarily provides same services to customers in the Lakewood area. Both franchises expire in fall 2014. (Another local provider, Frontier Communications, has a franchise in effect to 2020). Survey questions cover a variety of areas including cable customer satisfaction; cable, internet and phone service; viewership of the City’s government and educational access channels; and other needs that customers would like to see their cable company provide. To take the online survey, visit the City website at http://marysvillewa.gov or go directly to the survey at Only one survey per household is permitted; respondents must live within Marysville. The 18-question survey takes about 4-6 minutes to complete. Deadline is 5 p.m. Thursday, July 12. Survey results will be posted on the City website. Cable consultant River Oaks Communications of Centennial, Colo. has worked with Marysville previously on other cable franchise renewals. For more information about the survey, call Community Information Officer Doug Buell at (363) 363-8086 or email [EMAIL REDACTED].