Watchdog: Newsday buyback is good news
By GREGORY ZELLER // The international horse-trading that landed Long Island’s primary newspaper back in domestic hands is a horse of another color for a staunch opponent of the recent…
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Welkom bij New York: PSC OKs $17.7B Altice deal
Altice Group’s proposed $17.7 billion acquisition of Cablevision Systems Corp. has cleared its final hurdle. With a heaping side-dish of conditions, the New York State Public Service Commission served up…
NYPSC delays decision on Cablevision sale
The New York Public Service Commission will take a little longer to render a verdict on Altice’s $17.7 billion acquisition of Cablevision Systems. Originally scheduled to say yay or nay…
Media watchdog: Say no to Cablevision-Altice deal
By GREGORY ZELLER // Add the Fair Media Council to the list of organizations opposing the proposed sale of Cablevision to Altice. Citing “grave concern for the public interest, public…
In Cablevision deal, some Newsday staffers fear the worst — more change
By JAMES BERNSTEIN // Back in 1995, Mark H. Willes, chairman and chief executive of Times Mirror Co., then the owner of Newsday, flew in from L.A. to visit the…
Cablevision to be acquired by Dutch telecom
Cablevision has agreed to be acquired by Netherlands-based telecom company Altice in a deal valued at $17.7 billion, or about $35 per share. The deal, which must be approved by…