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Charter Asks Time Warner Cable Investors To Reject Comcast Acquisition
Returned today from the CinemaCon confab, so I'm just now getting a chance to catch up with Charter Communications' astonishing SEC filing that urges Time Warner Cable shareholders to support its $37B...
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Deadline Big Media 78: The CinemaCon Wrapup Podcast
In this week's podcast, Deadline's Executive Editor David Lieberman and host David Bloom wrap up all the business news out of CinemaCon, the big theater-owner convention that David Lieberman covered...
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Charter And Others Prepare To Challenge Time Warner Cable At Its Annual Meeting
It's not WrestleMania, but Time Warner Cable shareholders can expect more excitement than usual at their annual meeting this year: The company's preliminary proxy, out this morning, includes proposals...
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Comcast Close To $20B Cable Deal With Charter: Report
The combination of system sales and swaps valued at $20B would affect nearly 5.6M cable subscribers — and would remove Charter as a potential obstacle to Comcast's $45B acquisition of Time Warner Cable...
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UPDATE: WGAW Says Comcast-Charter Deal Creates A ‘Cable Cartel’
2ND UPDATE, 12:25 PM: The WGA West has weighed in on the divestiture plan between Comcast and Charter — and it isn't mincing words. Here's the guild's just-released statement — judge for yourself:...
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Cable Show: Charter CEO Slides By Question About His Change On Comcast-Time...
Charter CEO Tom Rutledge seemed a bit like Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel talking about his amp going to 11 when CNBC's Jon Fortt asked exactly the right question in a panel today at the National Cable...
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Deadline Big Media 83 – The Really Big Cable TV Show
In this week's podcast, Deadline's executive editor David Lieberman and host David Bloom recap one heck of a week in the business of providing services that looks more or less like television across...
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Liberty Media CEO: Charter Will Be Cable’s “First Stop” For System Sales...
This is one reason why Liberty Media says today that it will spin off its 26% ownership stake in Charter along with other assets in a publicly traded entity to be called Liberty Broadband. John...
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Deadline Big Media 84 – The All3 Apple Alibaba Podcast
In this edition of the podcast, Deadline's executive editor David Lieberman and host David Bloom recap Deadline's annual report on the most out-of-whack paydays for CEOs in media. Who got paid the most...
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Michael Willner Agrees To Run Comcast And Charter’s “SpinCo” Cable Company
Stamford, CT and Philadelphia, PA - May 15, 2014 - Charter Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: CHTR) and Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) today announced that former Insight Communications, Inc....
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FCC Starts Clock On Comcast’s Deals With Time Warner Cable And Charter
And they're off…The FCC officially started its informal 180-day clock to review Comcast's planned $42B acquisition of Time Warner Cable, and its side deals to transfer systems to Charter Communications...
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Warren Buffett Sends A Mixed Message To John Malone As He Buys Into Charter...
The Oracle of Omaha likes Liberty Media's John Malone. But based on the Q2 investment report from his company, Berkshire Hathaway, they don't see eye-to-eye on everything. Warren Buffett's team bought...
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Forget SpinCo: New Cable Company From Comcast And Charter To Be Called...
What a concept: A cable company with a name that doesn't begin with the letter “C” — like Comcast, Charter, Cox, and Cablevision. GreatLand Connections will be the name of the operator to be created if...
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Comcast Mocks Critics Of Its Time Warner Deal Ahead Of FCC Comment Deadline
UPDATE, 7:03 PM: Comcast EVP David Cohen's comments about Discovery seem to have gotten under its skin. "It is very unfortunate that Comcast is trying to divert attention away from the real issue and...
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Does John Malone Lust After TW Cable? “Hell, Yes!” (If Comcast Deal Tanks)
Liberty Media Chairman John Malone hasn't lost his lust for Time Warner Cable. That's the unmistakable message he delivered today at Liberty's Investor Day gathering when he was asked whether Charter —...
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Charter Ready To Go After Time Warner Cable If Comcast Deal Falls
“There’d be a ton of reasons” why Charter Communications “would likely pursue” the No. 2 cable operator if federal officials nix Comcast’s $45 billion stock deal to buy Time Warner Cable, Liberty Media...
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Charter Communications Negotiating To Buy Bright House Networks – Report
Charter Communications shares shot up 5.9% to a 52-week high this afternoon after Bloomberg reported that it’s in talks to buy Bright House Networks, a cable company owned by Si Newhouse’s Advance...
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Charter Agrees To Pay $10.4B For Bright House Networks
Charter Communications shares hit a 52-week high today after it reported that the nation’s No. 4 cable operator has agreed pay $10.4 billion for Bright House Networks, which has about 2 million subs...
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Charter Prepares To Pounce On Time Warner Cable
You shouldn’t be surprised by multiple reports this afternoon that Charter Communications is beginning to craft a bid for Time Warner Cable now that Comcast has left it at the altar. “Obviously, we’d...
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Charter Chief Considers Adding Netflix And Skinny Bundles – And TWC?
The most surprising news from Charter Communications’ call with analysts this morning didn’t involve any plans to buy Time Warner Cable — although CEO Tom Rutledge says he’s still talking with Bright...
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