I found this article this morning too. My god it's a pisser. I got the same response when calling TWC a few hours ago, they had no idea what's going on, and the techie I talked to was posting it to their mailing list to try and get some answers, but couldn't tell me anything.

We're considering going with Direct TV, since it's the only option on our side of town, but the customer service rep was almost 'too sure' of himself...so I'll be double checking everything he told me before signing on the dotted line. Grande might expand services, so see if you can get them to give you a firm answer on when they'll be in your area.