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Charter Communications Inc

  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    Lex
    The biggest US merger of 2025 also looks like an IPO Premium content

    The Charter-Cox deal is a transaction that looks to have been carefully engineered to suit strange times

    Fleet vehicles of Cox Communications are parked at a service center in Warwick, Rhode Island. The vehicles, including cars and vans, prominently display the company’s logo.
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Media
    Spectrum broadband owner Charter agrees $34.5bn cable tie-up with Cox

    Deal would combine two of the largest US groups in the sector as they face competition from streamers

    A monitor screen displaying Charter’s logo
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Media
    Liberty’s Malone calls for media merger wave under Trump

    Billionaire says consolidation should be permitted and adds that ‘allowing Big Tech to run wild’ is inappropriate

    John Malone
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    LexLiberty Media Corp
    America’s ‘cable cowboy’ lost out in infrastructure boom Premium content

    Wrangling media and telecoms products into business models that produce durable profits has proved to be tough going

    John Malone, chair of Liberty Media
  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    Media
    Disney and Charter settle dispute that blacked out TV programming

    Stand-off which left millions without premium live sports was seen as test for the future of cable business

    Buffalo Bills players run on to the field for an exhibition game in Orchard Park, New York
  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    Streaming services
    Disney vs Charter: a dispute that leaves future of cable TV in doubt

    The stand-off between the companies has left millions of US households unable to watch live sports

  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    Walt Disney Co
    Disney throws a lifeline to US Open tennis players amid cable blackout

    Media company gives some tournament participants access to matches amid battle with Charter over fees

    Daniil Medvedev during the US Open earlier this week in New York
  • Monday, 4 September, 2023
    LexMedia
    Disney/Charter: for millions, Iger vs Malone is a can’t-watch contest Premium content

    Sports fans in the US are losing out because of a clash over cable and internet

    Carlos Alcaraz
  • Thursday, 7 February, 2019
    Net neutrality
    Broadband groups cut capital expenditure despite net neutrality win

    US industry had argued that scrapping Obama-era rules would unleash investment boom

    A network engineer from Openreach, a unit of BT Group Plc, works on copper jumper wires inside an exchange building in this arranged photograph in Upminster, U.K., on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. Regulator Ofcom called on BT, the U.K.'s former telecommunications monopoly, to set up a legally separate entity for the Openreach network unit within BT, with its own board, but stopped short of seeking a breakup. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
  • Tuesday, 31 July, 2018
    Media
    Charter Communications surfs higher on subscriber gains
  • Friday, 2 February, 2018
    Media
    Charter profits surge on $9.3bn US tax gain
  • Wednesday, 29 November, 2017
    News in-depthFT Alphaville
    The DOJ’s case against the AT&T/Time Warner deal makes no sense
  • Wednesday, 22 November, 2017
    News in-depthUS companies
    Partisan passions cloud debate on US net neutrality

    Broadband and media markets remain resilient even as FCC moves to scrap 2015 regulations

    ** ARCHIV ** Breitbandkabel sind am 4. Februar 2009 in einem Rechenzentrum der DE-CIX, German Commercial Internet Exchange, in Frankfurt am Main zu sehen. Die Bundesregierung strebt auf dem EU-Gipfel in Bruessel eine Lockerung der Wettbewerbsregeln fuer den Telekommunikationsmarkt an. Konkret geht es um die Bedingungen fuer den Ausbau des Breitband- oder VDSL-Netzes fuer superschnelle Internetverbindungen. (AP Photo/Daniel Roland) ---** FILE ** Broadband cables are seen at the DE-CIX, German Commercial Internet Exchange in Frankfurt, central Germany, on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Daniel Roland)
  • Thursday, 16 November, 2017
    US companies
    Viacom shares slide after warning on fee income

    US distributors are paying less for its channels, which include MTV and Nickelodeon

    The MTV logo sits inside the MTV store in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, July 28, 2009. Viacom Inc., owner of MTV Networks and the Paramount Pictures film studio, said second-quarter profit fell 32 percent because of an advertising slump and declining movie revenue. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
  • Tuesday, 7 November, 2017
    Markets
    Fast Europe Open: Germany industrial production, UK house prices
  • Tuesday, 29 August, 2017
    News in-depthSocial Media
    Trump and jobs: the tweets and the facts

    The results have not always matched the president’s rhetoric on corporate investment

  • Thursday, 10 August, 2017
    News in-depthUS companies
    Drahi stretches cable ambitions to limit with Charter interest

    Billionaire’s Altice is lining up bid it may struggle to fund for US cable operator

  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2017
    LexUS companies
    Altice/Charter: more hat than cattle Premium content

    French telecoms chief needs to hitch his wagon to additional possible deals

    (FILES) This file photo taken on March 21, 2017 shows French telecom and Media group Altice founder Patrick Drahi during a press conference in Paris. Altice is exploring a bid for Charter Communications, the second-largest US cable operator and the owner of assets formerly held by Time Warner Cable, banking sources said on August 9, 2017. A deal would give the French telecom giant and its leader Patrick Drahi a major foothold in the US in a historically profitable sector now challenged by the rise of online streaming that is eroding key revenue streams. / AFP PHOTO / ERIC PIERMONTERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images
  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2017
    US companies
    Altice lines up $185bn pitch for cable group Charter

    Acquisitive European group could be set for latest round of US media consolidation

    Dexter Goei, chief executive officer of Altice SA, right, listens as Patrick Drahi, billionaire and chairman of Altice SA, speaks during a news conference in Paris, France, on Monday, April 7, 2014. Drahi's Altice SA won the bidding contest for Vivendi SA's French phone unit SFR, beating a government-backed offer from Bouygues SA by agreeing to a deal valued at more than 17 billion euros ($23 billion). Photographer: Ivan Guilbert/Bloomberg
  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2017
    Telecoms
    Sprint posts first quarterly profit in three years
  • Monday, 31 July, 2017
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Charter rallies on report Softbank plots takeover offer
  • Thursday, 27 July, 2017
    LexUS companies
    US cable TV: discordant Premium content

    Mid-tier network companies need to find a survival strategy

    FILE - This Wednesday, April 1, 2015, file photo shows a Charter Communications van, parked in St. Louis. Charter Communications, Inc. reports earnings, Thursday, July 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
  • Thursday, 27 July, 2017
    Americas companies
    Charter profits slump as cable subscribers cut cord
  • Thursday, 15 June, 2017
    News in-depthUS companies
    Liberty Media shows how to win deals and influence companies

    US media group’s investments from radio to Formula 1 reveal unconventional strategy

    Greg Maffei, chief executive of Liberty Media
  • Friday, 24 March, 2017
    US companies
    Charter’s US push earns Trump seal of approval

    Jobs creation pledge originally announced before president took office

    Charter Communications CEO Thomas Rutledge speaks to reporters outside of the West Wing of the White House after meeting US President Donald Trump on March 24, 2017 in Washington, DC. / AFP PHOTO / Mandel NganMANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images
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