THERE’S GOOD & BAD NEWS FOR NYC CABLE SUBSCRIBERS

Sometimes good things do come to those who wait, although not without a price. Just ask science-fiction and sports fans. Among some changes in the Time Warner Cable lineup on March 1: The addition...

Time Warner, Time Warner Cable agree to separate

NEW YORK – Media conglomerate Time Warner Inc. and its cable television arm Time Warner Cable Inc. said today their boards have approved the companies’ legal separation, with Time Warner Cable expected to pay a hefty $10.9 billion one-time dividend. As parent of the nation’s second-largest cable TV operator, Time Warner will receive $9.25 billion of the payout, or $10.27 per share of Time Warner Cable common stock. The dividend will be distributed just prior to the deal’s completion. ...

DirecTV prices spike after AT&T’s Time Warner buy - New York Post

of Time Warner. The telecom giant’s controversial, $85 billion purchase of Time Warner won... rival cable-TV companies, Feld said. University of California at Berkeley Professor Carl...

Time Warner Cable Will Play Solo - Bloomberg

Investors reacted positively to the announced spinoff of Time Warner's cable unit, meaning CEO Parsons may well avoid fighting a rematch with Carl Icahn

How a DIY Network Plans to Subvert Time Warner Cable's NYC Internet Monopoly

In a warehouse basement in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood late last year, a handful of self-taught network engineers gathered to casually discuss how they might make Time Warner Cable irrelevant in their lives. Toppling—or at least subverting—a telecom monopoly is the dream of many an American, who are fed up with bait-and-switch advertising campaigns, arbitrary data caps, attacks on net neutrality, overzealous political lobbying, lackluster customer service, and passive-aggressive servi...

Comcast, Time Warner Cable to meet U.S. Justice Dept officials over merger: WSJ - New York Daily News

Representatives of Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O) and Time Warner Cable Inc (TWC.N) are preparing to meet U.S.

Time Warner Cable Profits Will Grow With Broadband Caps - The New York Times

Time Warner Cable says it isn’t capping bandwidth use because profits are squeezed. Still, the new plan will raise average monthly bills.

Behind the Time Warner-MTV Tussle - Bloomberg

MTV Networks' Jan. 1 plan to pull channels off Time Warner Cable may portend more distribution-fee battles between cable programmers and operators

TIME WARNER’S LEVIN MAKES NICE WITH RUPE

It looks like Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin is tired of feuding and fighting. By calling a truce in his highly charged cable news battle with fellow media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Levin is acknowl...

Time Warner Cable Backs Away from Pricing Change - Bloomberg

Amid widespread consumer outrage, the No. 2 U.S. cable provider is putting on hold plans to change the way it charges for Internet access