FiOS TV Secures Another Long Island Franchise

The Board of Trustees of Williston Park, N.Y., approved a video franchise for Verizon Communications’ FiOS TV service Wednesday night.

The telco will compete with Cablevision Systems.

In addition to Williston Park, Verizon has been granted video franchises on Long Island in the villages of Massapequa Park, Cedarhurst, Laurel Hollow, Lynbrook, Mineola, East Rockaway, Farmingdale, Valley Stream and Freeport and in the towns of Huntington, Smithtown, Hempstead and Oyster Bay.

The telco also has New York video franchises in the Westchester County communities of White Plains, Irvington, Ardsley, Dobbs Ferry, Tarrytown, Eastchester, Mount Kisco, Elmsford, Port Chester, Tuckahoe and the Town of Greenburgh; and in the Rockland County communities of Airmont, Piermont, Orangetown, Clarkstown, Nyack, South Nyack, Upper Nyack and Grandview-on-Hudson.