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…
FCC OKs Cablevision sale; deal awaits NY nod
By GREGORY ZELLER // Time to batten down the hatches, according to one of the loudest opponents of Altice Group’s proposed acquisition of Cablevision Systems Corp. The Federal Communications Commission…
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…
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…
Cablevision in deal for WGN America, last 2.8% of Newsday
Cablevision has inked a multi-year deal that will bring Tribune Media’s general entertainment cable network, WGN America, to its New York, New Jersey and Connecticut customers beginning in January. As part of the deal, Cablevision…
Office Depot CIO joins Cablevision
Technology veteran Keith Sherwell has been named chief information officer at Cablevision, leaving a similar job at Office Depot after nine months. The Cablevision post is a new position that…
Cablevision: Just trying to stay ahead of consumers
A loss of 28,000 video subscribers may sound like big trouble for a cable company, but Cablevision Systems Corp. is taking the decline in stride. In fact, despite that precipitous…