Most cable TV customers in Seattle have to deal with the industry colossus Comcast.

But there’s a second cable provider in town. It covers the neighborhoods Comcast’s various predecessor companies (Viacom, TelePrompTer, AT&T Cable, Group W) chose not to wire up.

This other cable company has variously been known, under various mergers and buyouts, as Seanet, Summit, Millennium, and Broadstripe.

Under all those regimes, it seldom kept up with the services and channel lineups offered by the bigger boys.

But this might finally change.

Broadstripe’s Washington and Oregon operations were bought by a Kirkland firm, Wave Broadband.

It may take a few months, but Wave promises to upgrade these newly acquired systems.

And from the channel lineups on Wave’s existing systems, this upgrade could be substantial.

I’m talking HD versions of some of my fave channels (CBC, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, MSNBC, CNN, AMC, TCM, HBO, NBC Sports Network (formerly Versus, formerly Outdoor Life Network)).

And channels I want but Broadstripe doesn’t carry (IFC, Current, Ovation, Boomerang, CSPAN2, MLB Network, HDNet).

Still no Sundance Channel, though.