Exhibit 10.16.6  [Form of Executive Officer Stock Option Agreement]  ADELPHIA COMMUNICATIONS
CORPORATION  NONSTATUTORY STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT  Date of Grant of this Option:  February 6, 2001  THIS
AGREEMENT made by and between Adelphia Communications Corporation, a Delaware
corporation (hereinafter called the Adelphia), and [insert name] (hereinafter
called the Optionee) is made as of the above date under the Companys
1998 Long-Term Incentive Compensation Plan (the Plan).  WITNESSETH:  1.             Adelphia grants to the Optionee a
Nonstatutory Stock Option (the Option) to purchase [spell number] ([insert
number]) shares (the Shares) of the Class A Common Stock, par value
$.01 per share, of Adelphia (the Class A Stock) at the price of $44.25 per
share, subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan, except as expressly
provided in this Agreement.  2.             This option shall be immediately
exercisable.  Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary contained in the Plan, the Option may be exercised at any time
prior to February 6, 2004.  3.             It is intended that the Option not
constitute an Incentive Stock Option under Section 422 of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code).  4.             The Option may be exercised in
whole or in part from time to time as provided herein and in the Plan, provided
the Option may not be exercised for less than 100 Shares at any one purchase
(or the total number of Shares purchasable under this Option at such time, if
less than 100).  5.             The Option may be exercised only by
written request to the Chief Financial Officer of Adelphia at Coudersport,
Pennsylvania, accompanied by payment in full of the purchase price for the
Shares being purchased (hereinafter, the option price) either (i) in
cash, (ii) by delivering to Adelphia a notice of exercise with an irrevocable
direction to a broker-dealer registered under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, to sell a sufficient portion of the Shares to pay the option
price and to deliver sale proceeds equal to the option price directly to
Adelphia, (iii) by delivering to Adelphia other shares of the Class A
Stock with an aggregate fair market value equal to the option price, provided
that the other shares of Class A Stock delivered in payment of the option
price must have been held by the Optionee for at least six (6) months in order
to be utilized to pay the option price; or (iv) a combination of payment
procedures set forth above.  6.             The Optionee may pay Adelphia the
amount required to be withheld under applicable tax withholding requirements
(i) in cash; (ii) through the delivery to Adelphia of
previously-owned shares of Class A Stock having an aggregate fair market
value on the Tax Date equal to the tax obligation;  provided however that the shares of
Class A Stock delivered in payment of the tax obligation must have been
held by the participant for at least six (6) months in order to be utilized to
pay the tax obligation; or (iii) through any combination of payment
procedures set forth above.  The


Optionee may satisfy tax withholding obligations
required by law by requesting Adelphia to withhold Shares of Class A Stock
otherwise issuable in connection with an exercise of the Option.  7.             Each capitalized term used herein
without being defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Plan.  IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Stock Option Agreement as
of the date first above written.   WITNESS:
  ADELPHIA
  COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATIONBy:Authorized OfficerWITNESS:
  OPTIONEE:[Insert name]  2