Analysts and industry watchers who celebrated the "new openness" of Cablevision and its CEO James Dolan after the company hosted a three-day meeting for investors this week can start cleaning up the confetti. Turns out the powers that be at the Long Island-based cableco may have felt compelled to be [...]

After a summer which saw cable companies gang up on telcos and their service offerings in broadcast ads, Verizon has responded in kind, telling northern New Jersey residents that it is time to “pull the plug on their disco-era cable TV company” and try out its new FTTH FiOS network.Verizon is targeting Comcast [...]

Cablevision CEO James Dolan, who traditionally has played the company’s operations close to his vest—and has made a career of creating minor dust ups with Wall Street and his biggest investors—will be meeting with some of the cable company’s largest shareholders next week in an effort to garner support for [...]

With just over 24 hours to go before the current contract between Verizon and its unions--representing 65,000 members of the CWA and IBEW at the telco--expires at 11:59 p.m. Saturday, both sides are preparing for a possible strike.Communications Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers leadership already have [...]

Verizon Communications may be moving its TV service rapaidly into Cablevision's markets, but the cable TV company is taking an eye for an eye: It managed 26 percent growth in subscribers to its voice service during the second quarter, an additional 81,000 subscribers. Cablevision also said in its second quarter [...]

The New York State Public Service Commission has approved the video franchise agreement Verizon Communications forged with New York City officials to allow the telco to sell video and triple play services throughout the city. Verizon said in a statement that the company already has begun taking orders for FiOS [...]

Service Provider Spotlight: Optimum Lightpath Vitals: The Cablevision unit's roots are in the cable TV firm's effort to serve business customers off of its own fiber facilities, an effort that began 20 years ago and last year saw the 2,500th business building connected to the Optimum Lightpath Network. The Jericho, [...]

Comcast and its cable allies have lined up a series of broadcast ads belittling Verizon's vaunted FiOS network, claiming to have a larger fiber-optic network. What the ads don't point out is that while fiber is used in the network, it doesn't go to the home as is the case [...]

New Jersey lawmakers are fast-tracking a bill aimed at blocking the state Board of Public Utilities’ oversight of cable and telco businesses, including merger, acquisitions and other telecom business. The bill grows out of last year’s imbroglio over the BPU’s attempt to impose its jurisdiction over the Dolan family’s efforts [...]

Verizon, already doing battle with Cablevision on Long Island where its pushing FiOS in Nassau and Suffolk counties, today finds out if it can extend its reach into New York City. The company has a Read more[...]

Comcast's revised lower outlook this week and other recent market woes and regulatory challenges may have the cable TV industry contemplating its future. Can the business market, and specifically Read more[...]

Cable TV companies Cablevision and Charter Communications both reported third-quarter net losses that were larger than the same quarter last year. Cablevision, whose investors recently rejected a bid Read more[...]