FWIW, Cablevision just bought out Bresnan Cable in our neck of the woods. At least for now, Cablevision is being gift-wrapped as Optimum Cable, but it's the same ol' Cablevision shiat inside.
When I had Cablevision in Northeast Ohio (Copley/Fairlawn/Sharon Center) -- before they were run out of town -- it took them nearly 2 years to add new channels to our cable lineup -- and out of the handful of those "new adds" to our lineup, there was one religious channel (Canton's Channel 17), Telemundo, two home shopping channels and an independent channel in Canton (WOAC/67) which was mostly infomercials and a combination of religious & home shopping programs.