Cable TV giants Charter and Cox pursue $34.5 billion merger
Charter Communications, well-known in our area for its Spectrum line of products, is pursuing a merger with another cable TV giant.
Charter Communications, well-known in our area for its Spectrum line of products, is pursuing a merger with another cable TV giant.
Disney and Charter Communications have announced a deal to settle a dispute that had cut some 15 million cable TV customers off from ESPN and other Disney-owned channels, including in our area.
ESPN is among a number of Disney Entertainment channels that have gone dark on Charter Spectrum cable systems.
The Justice Department has approved Charter’s bid to buy Time Warner Cable and create another cable giant. Buying Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks will turn Charter Communications, a mid-size cable company, into the country’s No. 2 home Internet provider, after Comcast. The new Charter will be No. 3 in video, trailing Comcast and AT&T, which bought DirecTV last…