Flicker on monitor

Hello,
  As soon as I hook up the coaxial cable for the cable TV on my TV@nywhere my monitor starts to flicker. It doesn't matter if I'm watching TV or not. I have two computers and it happens on both of them. I ran a different cable from a different line coming into the house and still have the same problem. Anybody else experience this and what can I do?

Well mepvlp, if your monitor doesn't flicker when the coax cable is not connected - that should tell you there's nothing wrong with your monitor, but there is definitely some signal problems either with the coax cable or your transmission from cable provider sucks....and usually it's the cable provider.

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