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-{{Infobox Company |
-  company_name   = Midcontinent Communications |
-  company_logo   = [[Image:Midcontinent logo.png|Midcontinent Communications]] |
-  company_type   = Jointly owned by Midcontinent Media and [[Comcast]]|
-  company slogan = Get Hooked|
-  foundation     = 1931 [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]] |
-  location       = [[Sioux Falls, South Dakota]]|
-  key_people     = [[Pat McAdaragh]], CEO|
-  num_employees  = |
-  area_served    = [[Minnesota]]<br />[[South Dakota]]<br>[[North Dakota]]</br>|
-  industry       = [[Telecommunications]], [[Cable TV]], [[Internet]]|
-  revenue        = |
-  products       = [[Cable television]] <br>[[Digital cable]] <br>[[High-definition television]] <br>[[Video on Demand]] <br>[[Internet]] <br>[[Telephony]]|
-  homepage =   [http://www.midcocomm.com/ http://www.midcocomm.com/]|
-}}
-'''Midcontinent Communications''' is a provider of [[cable TV]], [[internet]], and general [[telephony]] services for home and business, largely serving [[South Dakota]] and [[North Dakota]], but also some communities in [[Minnesota]]. (the company is headquartered in [[Sioux Falls, South Dakota|Sioux Falls]]).  Midcontinent does business in more than 200 communities and serves a total of more than 200,000 customers.  It is a partnership between '''Midcontinent Media''' and [[Comcast]].
-Midcontinent Media (aka "Midco") was originally founded in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]] in 1931 as the Welworth Theater Company, an operator of movie theaters. The company remained in that business until the 1990s, when it sold its theaters to various chains, including [[Carmike Cinemas]].  In 1952, it bought the Midcontinent Broadcasting Company, owner of [[KELO (AM)|KELO-AM]]-[[KELO-FM|FM]] in Sioux Falls; the company name changed to Midcontinent Media.  The company also bought the construction permit for South Dakota's first television station, [[KELO-TV]], which took to the air in 1953.  Midcontinent purchased several other radio and television stations, but began exiting broadcasting in the 1990s, selling off the last of its radio holdings in 2004.
-Midco diversified and extended its reach into other areas of the Upper Midwest, providing telephone and cable TV in rural parts of its service area, starting in the 1960s. In 1999, Midcontinent Media and [[AT&T Broadband]] merged their cable operations in the Dakotas, [[Minnesota]] and [[Nebraska]] into Midcontinent Communications, a joint venture between both companies. Comcast later bought out AT&T Broadband.
-In the fall of 2008, [[Charter Communications]] announced that it planned to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. On October 14, 2008, an article appeared in the [[Fairmont, Minnesota]] ''Sentinel'',<ref>http://fairmontsentinel.com/page/content.detail/id/502139.html</ref> reporting that [[Charter]] was selling parts of their system to Midcontinent Communications, including its [[Bemidji, Minnesota]] and [[International Falls, Minnesota]] offices. Starting February 1, 2009 Midcontinent Communications took over some Charter's cable system in Minnesota including [[Balaton, Minnesota|Balaton]], [[Bemidji]], [[Canby, Minnesota|Canby]], [[Ely, Minnesota|Ely]], [[Fairmont, Minnesota|Fairmont]], [[International Falls]], [[Littlefork]], [[Sherburn, Minnesota|Sherburn]], and surrounding communities. Other areas in Minnesota sold to [[Comcast]].<ref>http://www.midcocomm.com/pressroom/NewsDetail202.cfm?Id=0,13</ref>
-Midco previously provided [[paging (telecommunications)|paging]] service, starting in 1985, but sold its paging services to another South Dakota company, Vantek Communications, in 2004.  Today, the former paging service is known as Midco Connections, a national leader in outsourced customer service specializing in catalog orders and after hours message service.  Midco Connections now employs over 300 people in Sioux Falls.
-Midcontinent Communications now serves both urban and rural communities and is the most-prominent cable TV provider in many of its service areas.  It also provides telephone service, internet access (through its MidcoNet service), and leased data circuits via [[fiber-optic cable]] for business.
-In much of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota Midcontinent offers a [[regional sports network]] called '''Midco Sports Network''' (formerly '''MC23''' until August 2010) mainly over channel 23 on all Midcontinent systems, which broadcasts [[University of South Dakota]] sports, and is affiliated with the [[University of North Dakota]]'s [[Fighting Sioux Sports Network]], along with many other smaller colleges in the Dakotas and Minnesota<ref>http://midcocomm.com/pressroom/newsdetail772.cfm?Id=0,115</ref>. During hours without sports programming MC23 carries [[ReelzChannel]].
-== External links ==
-* [http://www.midcocomm.com Midcontinent Communications website]
-* [http://www.midcoconnections.com Midco Connections website]
-==References==
-{{Reflist}}
-{{CATV USA}}
-{{Sports television in the United States}}
-{{Comcast}}
-[[Category:Cable television companies of the United States]]
-[[Category:Comcast Corporation]]
-[[Category:Communications in South Dakota]]
-[[Category:Telecommunications companies of the United States]]
-[[Category:Internet service providers of the United States]]
-[[Category:Companies based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota]]