Cablevision

Fox Business Gets Cablevision Distribution, 3 Million New Homes

Reuters | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media


The business channel, which News Corp started to compete with General Electric's (GE.N) CNBC, will start appearing on Nov. 19 on channel 106 for Cabl...

Hockey "In These Times"

B.D. Gallof | Posted 11.12.2009 | Sports


B.D. Gallof

Old, new, it's not a battle of two sides anymore. Instead, it's a crowded pool where any fan can glean info, rumor, opinion, humor or just about anything else with a mouse click via the Web or Twitter.

Cablevision Profit More Than Triples

AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 11.03.2009 | Media


Cablevision Systems Corp. on Tuesday said its third-quarter profit more than tripled as a sluggish economy didn't deter subscribers from signing up fo...

Cablevision Unveils Interactive Banner Ads On TV

AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 11.16.2009 | Media


Cablevision Systems Corp. is bringing interactive banner ads to television, allowing viewers to order samples and brochures and even purchase products...

Newsday Rejects Verizon Ads After Cablevision Deal

New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media


Verizon Communications bought full-page ads in Newsday several times a month for its FiOS Internet and television service until a few months ago, when...

Newsday Rejects Tennis Channel Ad Criticizing Parent Company Cablevision

New York Times | RICHARD SANDOMIR | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media


Newsday last week rejected an advertisement from the Tennis Channel that sharply criticizes the newspaper's parent company, Cablevision, for not carry...

Cablevision To Spin Off Madison Square Garden

AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 08.30.2009 | New York


Cablevision Systems Corp. said Thursday that its board has approved a plan to spin off as a separate company its Madison Square Garden business, owner...

NYC Gripes: The Digital TV Scam

R. B. Stuart | Posted 08.16.2009 | New York


R. B. Stuart

The digital TV conversion is no less than a ploy in deregulation to screw you via remote control.

Obama's CyberSecurity Speech Shows He Gets the Open Web

Art Brodsky | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media


Art Brodsky

Administration support for an open, non-discriminatory and competitive Internet is wonderful. It will be even more wonderful when we get some Congressional support for that Internet.

Cable Companies Target Commercials To Audience

New York Times | Stephanie Clifford | Posted 04.03.2009 | Media


The advertiser's dream of sending a particular commercial to a specific consumer is one step closer to reality as Cablevision Systems plans to announ...

Newsday TV: Cablevision Rolls Out Network To Promote Newspaper

MediaWeek | Anthony Crupi | Posted 09.12.2008 | Media


When Cablevision finalized its acquisition of the Long Island daily Newsday last month, the cable operator said it would explore synergies between the...

TV Upfronts, CNET, and the Facebook, MySpace and Google Data Wars

Jerry Weinstein | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media


Jerry Weinstein

The US Attorney's Office is using a Terms of Service violation as a way to prosecute. Think of that precedent. How many of us read ToS agreements anyway?

Newsday Staffer On Cablevision's Dolan Family: "They're The Only Owners Who Could Make You Wish For Murdoch"

New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 05.22.2008 | Media


The Dolans haven't been known for their warm embrace of the media. Ask any Knicks beat reporter about life at Madison Square Garden (as we did for a N...

Murdoch, Zuckerman May Still Get Their Hands On Newsday

New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 05.21.2008 | Media


The owners of The New York Post and The Daily News lost out to Cablevision in the battle for Newsday on Monday, but the tabloid war may be far from ov...

Cablevision Buys Newsday For $650M

AP | Posted 05.20.2008 | Media


Cablevision (NYSE:CVC) Systems Corp. says it is buying the Long Island-based newspaper Newsday from Tribune Co. for $650 million. Cablevision beat ou...

Cablevision buys Sundance Channel for almost $500M

AP | SETH SUTEL | Posted 05.15.2008 | Home


NEW YORK — Cablevision Systems Corp. is buying the Sundance Channel, a cable network founded by Robert Redford, for $496 million, the New York-a...

Cablevision The Frontrunner To Acquire Sundance Channel: Report

New York Post | Peter Lauria | Posted 05.03.2008 | Media


Cablevision is the frontrunner to acquire Robert Redford's Sundance Channel, The Post has learned. According to two sources close to the negotiations...

Media Mogul Battle! Murdoch, Zuckerman Both Eyeing Another New York Paper

Huffington Post | Posted 03.29.2008 | Media


As first reported yesterday by Crains New York, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch — who recently acquired Dow Jones (and the Wall Street Journa...

Cablevision Shareholders Say No To Dolans

AP | Seth Sutel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Shareholders on Wednesday unplugged the Dolan family's $10.6 billion bid for Cablevision Systems. The investor vote leaves Cablevision as an independ...

Proposed $10.6 Bil Proposed Buyout Of Cablevision In Peril

New York Times | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The Dolan family's $10.6 billion proposed buyout of Cablevision Systems was teetering on the edge of collapse this morning after its largest sharehold...