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                                                                    Exhibit 23.6

                        CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS

The Board of Directors
Charter Communications, Inc.:

We consent to the inclusion in the registration statement on Form S-4 of Charter
Communications Holdings, LLC and Charter Communications Holdings Capital
Corporation of our report relating to the combined balance sheets of Helicon
Partners I, L.P. and affiliates as of December 31, 1997 and 1998 and the related
combined statements of operations, changes in partners' deficit, and cash flows
for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 1998 included
herein and to the reference to our firm under the heading "Experts" in the
registration statement.

                                       /s/ KPMG LLP

New York, New York
July 12, 2001