Cable Operators

Time Warner Plays Games with Bluestreak

By: By Multi Channel News Staff May 4 2004 - 1:08pm

Time Warner Cable will launch Bluestreak Technology Inc.’s “Digital Entertainment Middleware” under a deal announced Tuesday.

The MSO will be the first to deploy DEM, which will enable it to offer its subscribers interactive games for television, personalized content and enhanced-TV features.

VIB TV to Buy Provo Cable

By: By Multi Channel News Staff Jul 2 2004 - 9:11am

Video Internet Broadcasting Corp. announced a memorandum of understanding Thursday to buy Provo Cable by the end of July, AP reported.

"The negotiations process with the city is now winding down," VIB TV chief operations officer Bob Murtagh told AP.

Ephrata, Wash.-based VIB TV is providing services in the Utah city through a municipal high-speed fiber-optic network.

The incumbent cable operator serves more than 2,400 subscribers.

Sí TV Adds Cox Systems

By: By Multi Channel News Staff Oct 7 2004 - 2:04pm

Sí TV said Thursday that it has reached six new affiliate-launch agreements with Cox Communications Inc.

The launches will expand the English-language, Latino-target network’s subscription base in California, Nevada and Kansas, starting with Topeka and Wichita, Kan., later this month.

Allen’s Six Foundations Become One

By: By Multi Channel News Staff Aug 18 2004 - 12:33pm

Charter Communications Inc. chairman Paul Allen is in consolidation mode, but employees of the MSO have nothing to fear.

Allen, one of the top 10 philanthropists in the nation, said Wednesday that he has formed The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, which is made up of The Allen Foundation for the Arts, The Paul G. Allen Charitable Foundation, The Paul G. Allen Foundation for Medical Research, The Paul G. Allen Forest Protection Foundation, The Allen Foundation for Music and The Paul G. Allen Virtual Education Foundation.

Haverkates’ Champion to Buy Altrio

By: By Linda Haugsted Mar 13 2004 - 8:00am

Denver-based Champion Broadband, helmed by former WideOpenWest LLC executives Mark and David Haverkate, has agreed to buy financially strapped Los Angeles-area overbuilder Altrio Communications Inc.

The sum was undisclosed, but overbuilds often sell for much less than incumbent cable systems, which have been selling for as much as $4,000 per customer lately. Altrio officials haven’t disclosed customer counts.

RCN Files Reorganization Plan

By: By Mike Farrell Aug 23 2004 - 2:01pm

Troubled overbuilder RCN Corp. filed a reorganization plan with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York Friday, outlining a plan to pay off its creditors in a debt-for-equity swap and emerging from Chapter 11 protection by the fourth quarter of this year.

RCN filed a prepackaged Chapter 11 plan May 27. This reorganization plan, while strikingly similar to the one it filed in May, contains more detailed information.

Charter Still Trying to Sell Nonstrategic Systems

By: By Mike Farrell Sep 9 2004 - 12:45pm

Charter Communications Inc. will continue its efforts to sell off nonstrategic assets in order to pay down debt, including trading larger systems for smaller ones that fit better into its footprint, one top executive told attendees at an industry conference Thursday.

The MSO has sold about 250,000 subscribers in nonstrategic markets over the past year, raising about $835 million. But the company has had less luck selling off another 250,000 subscribers it had earmarked for sale at around the same time.

Laybourne Joins Insight Board

By: By Multi Channel News Staff Feb 25 2004 - 9:51am

Cable-programming veteran Geraldine B. Laybourne has joined the board of directors at Insight Communications Co. Inc.

Laybourne -- currently founder, chairman and CEO of Oxygen Media -- led Nickelodeon to prominence and served as president of Nick at Nite, vice chairman of MTV Networks and vice president of cable operations at The Walt Disney Co.

She fills the seat vacated by Prakash Melwani in July.

Ex-Adelphia Four Begin Their Defense

By: By Mike Farrell Jun 17 2004 - 3:14pm

Defense attorneys for four former Adelphia Communications Corp. executives began their closing arguments Thursday afternoon, with one lawyer for former chairman John Rigas using his time to try to discredit the government’s star witness, former Adelphia vice president of finance Jim Brown.

John Rigas, sons Michael and Timothy and former assistant treasurer Michael Mulcahey are charged with 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy for allegedly defrauding investors and bilking the company of hundreds of millions of dollars for their personal use.

MSOs Offer Clues on Possible Adelphia Bids

By: By Multi Channel News Staff Jun 4 2004 - 12:28pm

Adelphia Communications Corp. is currently in the process of choosing bankers to manage a possible sale, and other major MSOs are all ears.

Comcast Corp. CEO Brian Roberts outlined a scenario Friday under which Time Warner Inc. would bid on Adelphia, then Comcast would exchange its Time Warner Cable stake for selected Adelphia systems, Reuters reported.

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