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- Cablevision Completes Acquisition of 97% Stake in Newsday Media Group Through Partnership with Tribune Company
- BETHPAGE, N.Y. -- Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC) today announced that it has acquired 97 percent of Newsday Media Group ("Newsday") through the formation of a new partnership with Tribune Company. For Cablevision, the completion of this transaction adds a complementary print and online media group with diverse, quality local...
- Research articles 2008-07-29
- China Voice Holding Corp. Completes DTNet Technologies Acquisition
- Company Now Projects Year-End Annualized Run Rate of $35 Million DALLAS -- China Voice Holding Corp. CHVC (OTC:CHVC), a provider of Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP, Office Automation and Wireless solutions for government, businesses and consumers in the People's Republic of China and the United States, announced today that...
- Research articles 2007-02-26
- Providence Equity Partners Opens Offices in Hong Kong and India to Support Growing Asia Investment Activities
- Andrew Rickards, Current Rothschild Asia CEO and Former Goldman Sachs Co-Head of CME Asia Pacific, to Lead Asia Investment Activities Biswajit Subramanian, a Providence Equity Managing Director in London, to Head Office in New Delhi PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Providence Equity Partners Inc., the leading private equity investment firm...
- Research articles 2007-01-21
- Providence Equity Partners opens offices in Hong Kong and India to support growing Asia investment activities.(COMPANY NEWS)
- Providence Equity Partners Inc., a private equity investment firm specializing in media, entertainment, communications, and information companies, announced that it is opening offices in Hong Kong and New Delhi to support its growing investment activities across Asia. Andrew Rickards, current chief executive officer of N.M. Rothschild...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Martin"s Plan Could Double Cable"s Levy.(Kevin Martin)
- By Ted Hearn Washington-- Cable operators that offer voice-over-Internet Protocol service could see their federal phone-subsidy payments more than double under a proposal supported by Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin, according to industry lobbyists familiar with the plan. ...
- Research articles 2006-06-05
- Martin’s Plan Could Double Cable’s Levy (Multichannel News)
- Washington-- Cable operators that offer voice-over-Internet Protocol service could see their federal phone-subsidy payments more than double under a proposal supported by Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin, according to industry lobbyists familiar with the plan. Martin's plan is an interim effort to shore up...
- Research articles 2006-06-05
- Consumers face no big shift now, but deal is a sign of major changes
- Consumers will likely see little immediate impact from Sunday's announcement that AT&T Inc. plans to buy BellSouth Corp. But the $67 billion deal is the latest sign of dramatic changes under way in telecommunications - and a reminder of what's at stake in battles over the future of television and...
- Research articles 2006-03-07
- Carnes hired at NCTA.(Bruce M. Carnes, National Cable and Telecommunications Association)(Brief Article)
- WASHINGTON -- Bruce M. Carnes has joined the National Cable & Telecommunications Association as senior vice president, finance and administration. He had been chief financial officer at the U.S. Department of Energy. At the NCTA, he will oversee the trade group's newly...
- Research articles 2005-12-19
- NLC wants input into communications act rewrite.(National League of Cities)
- As Congress prepares to undertake rewriting the 1996 Communications Act, local officials are concerned that a new law may pre-empt their authority to govern rights of way and collect taxes from a traditional revenue stream. In 1996, Congress finalized years of negotiation and substantially...
- Research articles 2005-02-21
- Cold-water corals pose new challenge for environmentalists
- PARIS AFP ? Cold-water corals, lesser known than their warm-water cousins, are much more widespread than previously thought but nevertheless face serious threat, the United Nations warned ahead of World Environment Day. Launching an appeal, the UN Environment Programme UNEP said that cold-water corals unlike the warm-water type in...
- Research articles 2004-06-04
- Data subs' high value: Sanford Bernstein says 'uncounted' subs add much.(Finance)(cable valuation miss a key component -- high-speed data and telephony subscribers who do not take video service)
- Cable valuations, currently between $3,500 and $4,000 per subscriber, are missing a key component that could in some cases triple the value of a subscriber, according to a recent research report by Sanford Bernstein & Co. While Wall Street has focused...
- Research articles 2003-12-22
- French Firm Proposes Giant Balloon over Boston.
- By Anthony Flint, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 8--Talk about a trial balloon. City officials are entertaining an informal preliminary proposal for a giant, tethered helium balloon that would take passengers seeking a view into the...
- Research articles 2003-10-08
- Windfall, Rate Hike Seen in Massachusetts' Proposed Telecom Tax.
- By Rick Klein, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 19--Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino is pushing the Legislature to pass a special tax on telecommunications equipment, a move that could generate $190 million for cash-strapped cities and towns but would...
- Research articles 2003-04-19
- Valenti, sachs top association pay scales: tax returns tell who makes what at media lobbies, trade and advocacy groups. (Exclusive Salary Survey).(Jack Valenti and Robert Sachs)
- Motion Picture Association of America President Jack Valenti and National Cable & Telecommunications Association President Robert Sachs are the top breadwinners among 119 non-profit, tax-exempt media lobbies, professional societies, advocacy groups and networks surveyed by BROADCASTING & CABLE. Valenti leads...
- Research articles 2003-02-03
- Firm Cuts SBC Rating
- In a further sign that a telecom recovery could come slower than many people expect, investment firm Merrill Lynch [MEL] on Friday cut its rating of SBC Communications [SBC] from "buy" to "neutral," citing a "continued deterioration in the outlook" for the Regional Bell Operating Companies RBOCs and slowing valuation...
- Research articles 2002-04-15
- What's at Stake - Government Activity
- Forget foreign policy; health care, the environment and Medicare reform. Some of the biggest issues facing candidates and policy makers in election 2000 tie in to the new economy. Politicians -- from city council candidates to presidential hopefuls -- have responded by cozying up to wealthy high-tech contributors. They're also...
- Research articles 2000-10-23
- Metromedia International Group Declares Preferred Dividend Will Be Paid In Cash
- NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 16, 1999-- Metromedia International Group, Inc. (AMEX:MMG) today announced that on December 15, 1999 the Company will pay its regularly scheduled dividend of $0.90625 per share on its 7.25% cumulative convertible preferred stock in cash to holders of record at the close of business on November...
- Research articles 1999-11-16
- UPC Amsterdam Cable Network Must Carry CANAL+ Digital Version Within Two Months
- PARIS--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 9, 1999-- Cable company UPC in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, must carry within two months the digital version of the Dutch CANAL+ premium channel, currently available only in analog format on the cable network, as a result of a new ruling taken by the Dutch telecommunications authority OPTA....
- Research articles 1999-11-09
- Cable Satisfaction International Inc. Announces an Investment of Capital Communications CDPQ Inc
- MONTREAL--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 27, 1999-- (ME:CSQ.A.) Cable Satisfaction International Inc. ("Csii") is pleased to announce an investment of Capital Communications CDPQ, a subsidiary of Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, by which Capital Communications would subscribe, by way of a private placement, for 8,500,000 subordinate voting shares of the...
- Research articles 1999-09-27
- International FiberCom Announces Design- Build Agreements With AT&T Broadband and Internet Services; Initial Projects in San Francisco, Denver Areas
- PHOENIX--BUSINESS WIRE--June 23, 1999-- International FiberCom Inc. (Nasdaq/NM:IFCI) and its Chairman and CEO Joseph P. Kealy Wednesday announced that IFCI will provide AT&T (NYSE:T) Broadband and Internet Services ("AT&T/BIS") design-build services for the upgrade of its cable systems. Initially, IFCI will take on portions of AT&T/BIS's cable...
- Research articles 1999-06-23
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