Charter Communications News

Town and Country-based Charter Communications said Monday that it suffered a loss of $1.04 billion in the third quarter, compared with a loss of $322 million a year ago, due to the cable company recording a $2.85-billion writedown of the value of its cable franchises.

Charter Communicationsa hold on the Decatur-area broadband market faces a new challenge.

Charter Communications improved some of its key operating statistics, but it took a large one-time charge and posted a loss in its third quarter as it continues to wrangle with its enormous debt.

A Madison woman said she was concerned with just how many times she had to say no to a sales pitch from Charter Communications.

Verizon Communications Inc. 's subscribers for its FiOS television service roughly doubled in 2008 while its two major competitors - Comcast, Charter Communications and RCN - reported drops in paid customers, according to cable subscription figures released by state Department of Telecommunications and Cable Thursday.

A closer look at 'In Re: Charter Communications' Steven M. Hedberg Special to Law.com November 05, 2009 Perkins Coie's Steven M. Hedberg Courtesy photo from law firm This is a story as old as borrowers, lenders and the Bankruptcy Code, but with a new twist.

Michigan Harvest Gathering has partnered with Charter Communications to help stock the shelves of Michigan's food bank with the "Penny Flicks for Food" program.

FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. -- Bankruptcy Creditors' Service, Inc., published Issue No. 19 of CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS BANKRUPTCY NEWS today.

" Duluth Public Access Community Television , serving the populace of Minnesota's fourth largest city, recently purchased 10 Panasonic AG-HMC150 professional handheld AVCCAM camcorders that are available to its members for both studio and field production.

Unless the Traverse City-area public access community can pull a legal rabbit out of its hat, it seems likely that Charter Communications is going to move local public access channels into what some have described as a cable TV gulag.

SCTE Cable-Tec Expo -- Although some of the largest U.S. cable operators are committed to wiring their networks for tru2way , it doesn't look like Canadian MSO Rogers Communications Inc.

Beginning today, Charter Communications is further enhancing customers' high-speed Internet experience by providing faster downloads through PowerBoost , a technology that temporarily increases Internet download speeds.

Hamburg Township officials say a technical blackout during the Channel 18 broadcast of Tuesday's meeting was the fault of Charter Communications and not the township.

Canoe Ventures LLC 's full-time employee base could expand by as much as 40 percent by year's end, based on the joint venture's current hiring plan.

Charter Communications, the primary cable television provider for Clarksville, has dropped local station WKAG-Channel 3. The channel on Thursday and Friday carried only a static message: 'This channel is no longer available' with a view of downtown Clarksville as a backdrop.

Hamburg Township says a technical blackout during the Channel 18 broadcast of Tuesday's meeting was the fault of Charter Communications and not the township.

After a 19-day trial before Manhattan Federal Bankruptcy Court Judge James Peck, Charter Communications won the right to maintain favorable terms on $11 billion in secured debt that its lenders had sought to refinance.

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge James Peck said Thursday that he would approve Charter Communications' reorganization plan, capping a nearly seven-month odyssey for the fourth largest cable operator in the country.Charter filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on March 27, and filed a reorganization plan that would shave about $8 billion in debt ...

Charter Communications Inc. looks poised to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy before the end of the year after the judge assigned to the case indicated that he would confirm the latest version of the MSO's reorganization plan.

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