Cablevision Sys News

Cablevision, one of the six founding MSOs Canoe, is targeting deployment of EBIF in the first half of 2010.

This morning, Cablevision Systems declared its quarterly dividend of ten cents per share.

Cablevision Systems' DVR subscribers have been able to use their PCs to access a Cablevision Web portal to program their DVRs; now they can do the same using any mobile device with Internet access.

Cablevision Systems Corp. said Tuesday that its third-quarter profit more than tripled as the number of customers using its voice phone service surpassed 2 million.

Cablevision Systems Corp. 's big WiFi deployment is ahead of schedule and is 15 percent under budget so far, executives said on today's earnings call.

As speculation swirls that cable operators could be faced with a stiff retransmission-consent bill for News Corp.'s owned-and-operated Fox television stations, Cablevision Systems' chief operating officer told analysts that any retrans costs would not likely be shifted to customers.

Bethpage -based Cablevision said net income was $98.9 million, or 33 cents a share, compared with a profit of $30.9 million, or 10 cents a share, in the same period last year.

Cablevision Systems says its third-quarter profit more than tripled as the number of customers using its voice phone service surpassed 2 million.

After persisting for about two decades with an interactive video strategy that puts most of the processing in the proverbial "cloud" so even the feeblest set-tops can enjoy the experience, its big payoff appears to be in view.

Customers of Cablevision Systems Corp. will see their cable bills rise by an average of 3.7 percent next year, the company announced.

The cable television company that serves much of southwestern Connecticut has announced a 3.7 percent increase to the average customer's monthly bill in 2010.

Cablevision Systems Corp. has completed the deployment of Optimum WiFi in Brooklyn, The Bronx, and New Jersey.

SeaChange International is showing a fully functional network DVR system here at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo that the company says is ready for operators to put into service today.

Cablevision Systems has launched iO TV Quick View, three new channels that display "mosaics" of nine different kids, sports and news networks on a single screen.

CTAM Summit -- Comcast Corp. has simple interactive TV applications such as voting and polling deployed to about 60 to 65 percent of its cable homes, vice president of interactive TV James Mumma said during a panel discussion here Monday.

Cablevision Systems Corp. today announced that free Optimum WiFi wireless Internet access is now available throughout Madison Square Garden.

A panel of cable business services marketers offered tips on how to market cable business services at a CTAM Summit panel here Monday, adding that while promotional offers will get some customers in the door, discounting too heavily can have an unintended effect.

Newsday has announced that people who are not Optimum Online customers or Newsday customers will have to start paying a $5 weekly fee to access Newsday.com . Those who are not customers of Optimum Online or the newspaper - both owned by Bethpage-based Cablevision Systems Corp.

When Cablevision first bought Newsday, Charles Dolan admitted the company knew very little about the newspaper business, but promised to consult widely with newspaper experts in coming up with a plan.

The National Basketball Association said on Thursday that it had signed deals with Time Warner Cable Inc, Cablevision Systems Corp and Dish Network Corp to carry NBA TV, raising its distribution to 45 million U.S. homes.