He made three more fortunes--in cable television (Vision Cable Communications), mobile telephony (Metro Mobile) and gas pipelines (Southern Union).
Comcast Cable Communications is one of the nation's largest video, high-speed Internet and phone providers to residential and business customers.
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Comcast is principally involved in the operation of cable systems through Comcast Cable Communications and in the development, production and distribution of entertainment, news, sports and other content for global audiences through NBCUniversal.
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According to Morgan Stanley, 91% of cable-ready homes in the U.S. have access to advanced services, and the National Cable and Communications Association says that more than a third of U.S. cable customers subscribe to digital cable.
OWN, a joint venture between Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Inc. and cable programmer Discovery Communications Inc.
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Cable and Wireless Communications has announced the sale of the majority of its Monaco and Islands division.
Continuing efforts to replace copper communications cable with fiber optic cable will significantly reduce overall EMP vulnerability.
Continuing efforts to replace copper communications cable with fiber optic cable will reduce overall EMP vulnerability significantly.
Canoe is the New York venture established in 2008 by Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, among others.
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Bharti's unit, Network i2i Ltd, owns the submarine communications cable network by the same name that connects India to Singapore.
Before Golisano took charge, the Sabres were owned by John Rigas, founder and chief executive officer of cable giant Adelphia Communications.
Tony Rice, CEO of Cable and Wireless Communications, said the move was part of a focus on growth in the Americas.
Stock in cable company Charter Communications languishing, thanks to an assist from the indictment of 4 executives on charges of inflating company's results.
"We're not big in ERP, aren't aggressively exploring outsourcing and don't view the Web as so bizarre we can't get our head around it, " says Scott Hatfield, chief information officer at cable operator Cox Communications.
"Disney is trying to inappropriately use its ownership of ABC to extract excessive and unreasonable terms for its cable channels -- terms that would add hundreds of millions of dollars in costs for Time Warner Communications and its cable customers, " Time Warner said in a message to its Los Angeles subscribers.
On the home front, the device could lead to rapid improvements in cable television and satellite communications.
Sharon Kleinpeter with the local cable company, Cox Communications, says the law was passed two years ago after long negotiations.
OWN's 24-hour-a-day programming launched on Jan. 1 in 80 million homes as a partnership between Winfrey's Harpo production company and cable programming powerhouse Discovery Communications.
Time-Warner Cable, Discovery Communications, Sesame Street, and other partners will get the message to kids and students about the wonder of invention and discovery.
She's landed a cable commitment from Tele- Communications, Inc. and an offer to raise big bucks from Morgan Stanley.
Then, in 1993, Kent and Wood created another cable company, called Charter Communications.
StoneRidge stems from an agreement that Charter Communications, a cable company, had with two vendors, Motorola and Scientific-Atlanta, which supplied Charter with cable boxes.
Since Cox Communications, a cable firm, went private in 2004, it has benefited from the lack of both short-term market pressure and Sarbanes-Oxley-related interference.
Stoneridge investors had argued that Motorola and Scientific-Atlanta should be held liable in a complex "scheme to defraud" investors because of an agreement they had with Charter Communications, a cable company.
She's landed a cable commitment from Tele- Communications, Inc.
Cowen and Company analyst Tom Watts maintained an "outperform" rating on Sprint Nextel after hearing the company will be jointly bidding with various cable companies in the Federal Communications Commission's high-stakes auction for wireless spectrum June 29.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission figures that cable modems are available to 71% of U.S. homes, DSL, to at least 50%.
In 2002, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission ruled that cable transmissions were strictly an information service, protecting operators from having to share their lines.
Satellite companies like Hughes Electronics and EchoStar Communications are encroaching on cable's territory, carrying hundreds of channels, including local offerings, with digital-quality picture and sound.
Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSA - news - people ), Cox Communications and other big cable companies are working on VoIP offerings of their own.
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