Cable Operators

Cox's Bob Wilson To Retire

MSO's Chief Contract Negotiator -- and 34-Year Cox Vet -- to Exit at End of 2013
By: Jeff Baumgartner Apr 9 2013 - 6:09pm
MSO's Chief Contract Negotiator -- and 34-Year Cox Vet -- to Exit at End of 2013

Bob Wilson, the chief content negotiator for Cox Communications, will retire at the end of the year, departing after a 34-year career with the company.

Wilson joined Cox in 1979 as a business manager, handing financial planning for new franchise operations.  At the time, Cox served just 500,000 customers and Wilson was one of just 45 employees based at the MSO's headquarters in Atlanta.

Cablevision Realigns Management Team

Kristin Dolan Upped to President, Optimum Services; Sweeney to SEVP Strategy; Hildenbrand Senior Advisor
By: Mike Farrell Apr 9 2013 - 4:55pm
Kristin Dolan Upped to President, Optimum Services; Sweeney to SEVP Strategy; Hildenbrand Senior Advisor

Cablevision Systems CEO James Dolan announced a realignment of its senior leadership Tuesday and is keeping it mostly in the family, elevating his wife and long-time executive Kristin Dolan to president of Optimum Services and his brother-in-law and MSO veteran Brian Sweeney to senior executive vice president, strategy.

The moves, Cablevision said, are part of an effort to accelerate its transformation into a more customer-focused organization and streamline the day-to-day management decision-making processes. All of the executives will report to James Dolan.

Nexidia Named 'Presenting Sponsor' At Cable Center's C5 Gathering

Firm Will Discuss Work With FTC At Meeting Of Cable Operator Customer Care Committee
By: MCN Staff Apr 9 2013 - 3:11pm
Firm Will Discuss Work With FTC At Meeting Of Cable Operator Customer Care Committee

Nexidia, a provider of customer interaction analytics solutions for business transformation, and The Cable Center said the company has signed on as a presenting sponsor of The Cable Center’s Customer Care Committee (“C5”).

Cablevision Gets $525M From Voom Settlement

AMC Nets $175M
By: Mike Farrell Apr 8 2013 - 9:38pm
AMC Nets $175M

AMC Networks received about $175 million from the settlement of its Voom litigation with Dish Network last year, with former parent Cablevision receiving the lion’s share, or about $525 million, according to documents filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

NAB: Video Vendors Rally Around HEVC

Big Deployments Still Years Away, But Suppliers Stick Stakes in Ground
By: Jeff Baumgartner Apr 8 2013 - 10:30am
Big Deployments Still Years Away, But Suppliers Stick Stakes in Ground
The NAB show floor in 2012.

Full-scale adoption of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)/H.265 by video service providers remains years away, but vendors are using this week's NAB show in Las Vegas to trot out early-generation gear that supports the more efficient codec.

HEVC compression is expected provide up to a 50% efficiency gain over H.264/MPEG-4 without sacrificing video quality, making HEVC a logical candidate for mobile video applications and the eye-popping Ultra HD/4K video format. 

Chernin Makes $500M Bid For Hulu: Reports

Former News Corp. Exec Among Bidders For Online Video Pioneer
By: Mike Farrell Apr 6 2013 - 10:35am
Former News Corp. Exec Among Bidders For Online Video Pioneer

 

Former News Corp., chief Peter Chernin could be gearing up to do the Hulu.

Chernin, who formed his own production company in 2009 after stepping down as chief operating officer of News Corp., is a said to be among the bidders for Hulu, the online video service he helped found in 2007.

Roberts Bags $29.1M in 2012 Compensation

Comcast Chief Sees Total Rise 8.1%
By: Mike Farrell Apr 5 2013 - 5:06pm
Comcast Chief Sees Total Rise 8.1%

Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts received $29.1 million in total compensation in 2012, fueled by a big boost in non-equity incentives awards during a year when its stock rose nearly 61%.

According to a proxy statement filed late Friday, Roberts’s annual salary remained the same at $2.8 million. And though his stock and option awards declined by a combined $2 million for the year, that deficit was more than made up by about $3.5 million increase in non-equity compensation from $5.5 million in 2011 to $9 million in 2012.

Britt's Pay Rises 6% to $17.4M in 2012

Marcus Sees 20.2% Hike in Compensation
By: Mike Farrell Apr 4 2013 - 6:18pm
Marcus Sees 20.2% Hike in Compensation

Time Warner Cable chairman and CEO Glenn Britt received $17.4 million in total compensation in 2012, a 6% increase from the $16.4 million he received in the prior year, according to a proxy statement filed April 4.

Britt’s annual salary remained steady at $1.25 million, according to the proxy. And though his non-equity incentive plan compensation dipped to $6.6 million in 2012 from $7.2 million in 2011, that was more than made up in a rise in stock awards (to $3.7 million from $3.2 million) and option awards (to $5.2 million from $4.2 million).

BCI Broadband Agrees To Buy James Cable

Deal Will Close in Mid-2013
By: Mike Farrell Apr 4 2013 - 1:33pm
Deal Will Close in Mid-2013

With the ink barely dry on its first cable systems deal, BCI Broadband, the mid-sized  market MSO headed by two former Bresnan Communications executives, has agreed to purchase long-time small market operator James Cable for an undisclosed sum.

FCC Postpones Cablevision-GSN Hearing

Sets Mid-July Date to Hear Carriage Case
By: Mike Farrell & John Eggerton Apr 3 2013 - 10:42pm
Sets Mid-July Date to Hear Carriage Case

A Federal Communications Commission hearing in the years-long carriage dispute between Cablevision Systems and GSN has been pushed back until mid-July after the FCC administrative law judge and parties involved agreed to the delay in hopes of getting some guidance from the U.S. Court of Appeals in the Tennis Channel/Comcast suit.

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