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...A combined Charter-TWC may then look to buy another company such as Cablevision, controlled by New York’s Dolan family....
...Charter last month offered $1.63bn for Optimum West, a cable operator sold by Cablevision that reaches more than 300,000 video subscribers in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Utah....
...The agreement between Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable was announced as the US cable industry’s annual NCTA show opened in Boston and will enable their...
...John Bickham, Mr Rutledge’s longtime deputy, also recently left Cablevision. The management shake-up prompted some analysts to suggest that Cablevision might be a candidate for a takeover....
...Cablevision added new internet customers, generating revenues from the segment with the addition of a new broadband operator....
...Time Warner Cable is the first of the big US cable operators to report earnings, and its results could foreshadow similar losses of pay-TV customers for Cablevision, which reports earnings on Friday, and...
...ESPN has not been among the networks to criticise the apps launched by Time Warner Cable and Cablevision....
...More recently, Cablevision has been in the good graces of shareholders....
...James Dolan, will be the executive chairman of MSG and will remain chief executive of Cablevision. Hank Ratner will be president and chief executive of MSG and remain vice chairman of Cablevision....
...Cablevision’s profit also rose past expectations, helped in part by more phone and high-speed internet customers....
...But with the cable operators Time Warner, Comcast and Cablevision all trading at less than five times earnings before interest, tax depreciation and amortisation, a record low, investors should not hide...
...Cablevision signalled that it would waste no time in rolling out the technology....
...In an effort to reduce debt and meet obligations for large interest payments, Mr Zell agreed the $632m sale of Newsday, Tribune’s Long Island title, to Cablevision’s controlling Dolan family in May....
...Several analysts have expressed doubts about the Cablevision strategy which appears to include making acquisitions outside the core cable TV business....
...The Chicago-based publisher agreed earlier this month to sell Newsday, the Long Island tabloid, to cable operator Cablevision to pay down some of its shorter-term obligations, but it still faces long-term...
...The Dolan family, which controls the Cablevision empire, is expected to enter the fray. More than a battle of media moguls, though, the Newsday sale is another indication of Tribune’s fragile state....
...Cablevision, the New York-based cable company, recently received a $17bn buy-out offer from members of the controlling Dolan family....
...However, with cable rivals such as Cablevision, Comcast and Time Warner accelerating the pace at which they are adding new video subscribers, satellite operators will face further pressure to come up with...
...Earlier this month, Cablevision’s controlling family, the Dolans, proposed to take the cable group private in a $17bn offer, including debt, with a similar rationale....
...If Cablevision does get the all-clear, others are expected to quickly follow....
...Cablevision’s shares rose 1.63 per cent in New York morning trade to $21.24....
...Cable rivals Cablevision and Time Warner Cable, which have rolled out telephone services more rapidly than Comcast, have been able to retain more customers and even lure back some from satellite rivals by...
...The results echo similar strong performance by smaller operators, such as Cablevision, and suggest that customers are keen to sign up for bundled telephone, internet and video packages....
...Aryeh Bourkoff, analyst at UBS, said: “Comcast is taking a bit longer [than Time Warner Cable or Cablevision] to get the full benefit of the bundle.”...
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