Can I have more than one cable company?

Can’t you pay the one cable company for the extra channels? Paying for two would be pricey.

@chyna their are some specialty channels and features that are only available in one cable company. Like Shaw go WiFi and head bangers radio. I might not do it. I just want to know if I can.

Probably not. To a degree it depends on your TV and how many inputs it has. Mine, for example has several HDMI ports but only one coaxial. So it would depend on if you were getting HD service, and how it was connected.

Also, in some parts of the US (I realize that Canada may be different), the cable companies share the physical cable infrastructure that goes into your house or apartment. Meaning that the actual cable that connects to the cable box or TV is the exact same; the connection to one cable company or another is made in a machine room or outside your place.

The bottom line for you is “highly unlikely” from a purely mechanical point of view.

Yes you can. But you need a special box installed (by you) in the coax cable (signal input) that can be switched (by you) from one cable source to the other. Then you connect the cables from both cable companies and switch back and forth from one to the other, depending on what you want to watch and when. 2 or 3 cables in, 1 out to TV.

I can’t because the cable from the pole at the street can only carry one signal/cable company to my modem in the house. The cable is buried at about three feet between the street and the house.

I have cable/Internet from the phone line and I have a cable outlet. I have both coaxial cable and phone lines. So I think it would work. I was also wondering if anyone has ever done that before.

They get to you on the same cable from the pole. The cable is connected to the phone line through a modem and the same cable has a phone modem. Here is an EXAMPLE.
It has both a phone connection for phone (VOIP) and cable connection for internet.

Regardless of whether or not it can be done you should ask yourself if those few channels are really worth the price (considering how stupidly expensive cable is). Especially when you’re on a limited budget.