Charter Communications ( CHTR - news - people ) and AAT Communications.
The big winner in the Charter Communications turnaround: Leon Black and Apollo Global Management.
Then, in 1993, Kent and Wood created another cable company, called Charter Communications.
Stock in cable company Charter Communications languishing, thanks to an assist from the indictment of 4 executives on charges of inflating company's results.
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.
Its ten-year bonds, which were trading at lower yields than Paul Allen's Charter Communications' debt six months ago, now yield some 300 basis points more.
Allen's Charter Communications reaches 2.3 million subscribers and could jump to more than 6 million by the time Laybourne plans to hit the airwaves in February.
One of the case studies we describe in our book tells the story of John Birrer, the senior vice president of customer experience at Charter Communications.
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In an age when most investors are happy with base hits, he still hits home runs, making big money for his backers at companies like Charter Communications and AAT Communications.
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.
In June, with little fanfare, Comcast announced it would join smaller cabler Charter Communications in testing a new Sony technology called Passage that allows any manufacturer's box to tap into any cable network.
For the ING fund, the two largest at the end of last year--accounting for 8.6% of the portfolio--were units of Charter Communications, rated a lowly B2 by Moody's Investors Service, and Nextel, also a junk issuer with a Ba2 bank-loan rating.
StoneRidge stems from an agreement that Charter Communications (nasdaq: CHTR - news - people ), a cable company, had with two vendors, Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) and Scientific-Atlanta, which supplied Charter with cable boxes.
Charter Communications and others.
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If they divided up Adelphia's customer base, those rankings wouldn't change, but it would put more distance between the leaders and the other U.S. providers, such as Cox Communications and Charter Communications (nasdaq: CHTR - news - people ), each with about 6 million customers.
Stoneridge investors had argued that Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) and Scientific-Atlanta should be held liable in a complex "scheme to defraud" investors because of an agreement they had with Charter Communications (nasdaq: CHTR - news - people ), a cable company.
Number two operator Time Warner (nyse: TWX - news - people ) has already rolled the service out in all of its top 31 divisions and has over 700, 000 DVR customers, while number four Charter Communications (nasdaq: CHTR - news - people ) saw DVR subscriptions jump to 61, 000 from 24, 000 between the second and third quarters of this year.
Other deployment partnerships in the U.S. include Charter, RCN, Suddenlink and Grande Communications, and European operators include Virgin Media, the largest cable operator in the UK, and ONO, the largest cable operator in Spain.
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This plan to allow the security services and police to get greater access to communications traffic - but not content - has already been attacked as a snoopers' charter.
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