Company operates in second-tier markets, which provide some protection from the local telephone companies' aggressive rollout of facilities-based video offering in the intermediate term; Position as dominant provider of pay television services; and Growth potential from high-speed Internet, digital video, video-on-demand, and voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone service. Highly leveraged financial profile with pro forma debt to latest-12-month EBITDA of 7.0x; Aggressive competition from direct-to-home satellite TV providers and local telephone companies; Integration risk associated with G-Force acquisition; Small company size with minimal cost opportunities; and Concentration in western Pennsylvania, where its systems account for about 60% of operations and offer below-average growth potential because of demographic factors. The ratings on Quincy, Mass.-based Atlantic Broadband Finance LLC (Atlantic) reflect
