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Time Warner Cable Milestones American Television and Communications (and predecessor companies) Warner Cable (and predecessor companies) Time Warner Cable Government and Industry Late First community antenna 1940s television (CATV) systems built in Oregon and Pennsylvania 1948 Federal Communications –1952 Commission (FCC) freeze on new broadcast TV licenses fuels CATV growth 1950 Franklin, Pennsylvania, system built by Jack and Abe Harter 1951 National Community Television Association (NCTA) formed • Pottsville, Pennsylvania, system built by Martin Malarkey 1953 Bill Daniels enters cable business, building his first CATV system in Casper, Wyoming 1960 TelePrompTer enters cable business 1962 Television Communications (TVC) formed 1963 Monty Rifkin, formerly with TelePrompTer, joins Bill Daniels in Denver to own, operate cable systems • Alan Gerry forms Cablevision Industries (CVI) 1966 Cypress Communications formed viii Time Warner Cable Milestones Late Time Inc. buys stake in 1960s Manhattan-based Sterling Communications and other cable systems mostly in Midwest and West 1968 Bill Daniels and Monty Rifkin co-found American Television and Communications Corp. (ATC) on June 4—planting the roots of today’s Time Warner Cable • Monty Rifkin named ATC chairman and CEO • FCC bans ownership of cable and broadcast systems in same market 1969 ATC goes public 1970 ATC acquires systems including Albany, New York, and wins the Orlando, Florida, franchise 1972 Proposed merger of ATC and Cox announced (rejected by Justice Dept. in 1973) • ATC buys Jefferson- Carolina Corp. • HBO debuts • Warner Communications buys TVC, cable assets of Continental Telephone, and Cypress Communications • Completes two-way Akron, Ohio, system 1973 Time Inc. acquires 9 percent of ATC • Warner Cable subsidiary formed (140 systems in 31 states, 453,000 subscribers) • Gus Hauser named Warner Cable CEO • Time Inc. acquires all of Sterling Manhattan (renamed Manhattan Cable) 1975 HBO carries “Thrilla in Manila” heavyweight fight via satellite, sparking growth of HBO and cable 1976 Ted Turner’s superstation (later renamed WTBS) launches on satellite • Columbus, Ohio, system built 1977 QUBE, the first two-way interactive cable system, launches 1978 Time Inc. agrees to buy 100 percent of ATC 1979 Warner and American Express form Warner Amex cable partnership, with 700,000 subscribers • ATC hits 1,000,000 subscribers • Brian Lamb launches C-SPAN • Warner Communications launches Nickelodeon 1980 Turner launches CNN • Westinghouse cable unit Group W buys TelePrompTer 1981 Warner Communications launches MTV 1982 Trygve Myhren named ATC chairman and CEO 1983 Drew Lewis named Warner Amex chairman and CEO, moves company headquarters from New York City to Blue Bell, Pennsylvania 1984 Charlotte and Greensboro, North Carolina, systems acquired • Warner Amex sells systems in Pittsburgh, suburban Chicago, suburban St. Louis to cut costs (1.2 million subscribers following deals) • Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 1985 ATC makes Group W, Paragon deals (adds systems in Arizona, California, Florida, Maine, New Hampshire, NewYork [including northern Manhattan] and Texas) • Warner buys out Amex partnership interest, sells cable networks including MTV and Nickelodeon to Viacom • Warner Cable company headquarters moves to Columbus, Ohio
1986 ATC publicly lists stock for second time • Jim Gray named Warner Cable president 1987 ATC develops fiber-optic cable –1988 network 1987 Warner launches 100+ channel cable system in multiple test areas 1988 Joe Collins named ATC chairman and CEO • ATC company headquarters moves from Denver to Stamford, Connecticut 1989 Time-Warner merger announced, bringing together the companies’ 6.1 million cable subscribers (although ATC and Warner Cable would continue to operate separately and retain their names until 1992, when ATC is no longer a public company) • Joe Collins named Time Warner Cable CEO 1991 PrimeStar satellite service jointly launched by Time Warner Cable, other cable companies 1992 ATC and Warner Cable combined into Time Warner Cable with a total of 7.1 million subscribers • Time Warner Entertainment (TWE) partnership formed, includes Time Warner Cable • NY1 News launches in New York City • Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 1993 Circuit-switched telephony tests in Rochester, New York 1994 Emmy® Award for work in broadband fiber-optic technology • The Full Service Network (FSN), adigital system that is an early forerunner of video on demand and other innovative services to come, is tested in Orlando 1995 Test in Elmira, New York, of Line Runner high-speed Internet service (later rechristened Road Runner®) • Time Warner Entertainment- Advance/Newhouse (TWE-A/N) partnership formed 1996 Road Runner®, the first cable- delivered high-speed Internet service, starts national rollout in Akron and Canton, Ohio • CVI, KBLCOM, Summit Communications systems acquired in ’95 and ’96 • 1996 Telecommunications Act 1998 Road Runner® Business Class (later named Time Warner Cable Business Class) begins offering video and high-speed data services to small businesses 1999 Digital cable rolls out companywide • Video on demand launches • System exchanges with AT&T subsidiaries, MediaOne, Fanch, and Comcast 2000 AOL–Time Warner deal announced 2001 Glenn Britt named Time Warner Cable CEO 2002 Restructuring of TWE-A/N • High-definition TV launches • Integrated DVR launches 2003 Launch of digital phone service via Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology 2005 Start Over® digital video debuts (later wins an Emmy® Award) • Rollout of triple play offering of video, high-speed data, and phone 2006 Adelphia–Comcast trans- actions add 3.3 million basic video subscribers in areas including Los Angeles and Dallas (more than 14.5 million subscribers total) 2007 Time Warner Cable stock publicly traded on New York Stock Exchange • Look Back debuts • Time Warner Cable Business Class launches Business Class Phone • Headquarters moves to New York City 2008 Emmy® Award for video on demand contributions 2009 Separation of Time Warner Cable from Time Warner Inc. 2010 TV Everywhere online video launches (with ESPN) 2011 TWCable TV app for the Apple iPad® launches • Time Warner Cable acquires business services subsidiary NaviSite to enable “cloud” services • Time Warner Cable agrees to pay $3 billion for Midwestern cable oper- ator Insight Communications Company Inc., which has 750,000 subscribers Time Warner Cable Milestones ix
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Page 7: Contents vii Welcome to the History
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Page 14 and 15: TelePrompTer, one of the first larg
Page 16 and 17: TelePrompTer CEO Irving Berlin Kahn
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Page 20 and 21: TOP Feisty Philo T. Farnsworth batt
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Page 24 and 25: Cable antennas, initially referred
Page 26 and 27: Martin Malarkey founded the cable s
Page 28 and 29: Gene Schneider was one of dozens of
Page 30 and 31: “Hell, I’ve Got a Management Co
Page 32 and 33: TelePrompTer’s Irving Kahn demons
Page 34 and 35: In 1963, Ralph Roberts bought the f
Page 36 and 37: By the late 1960s, innovative cable
Page 38 and 39: Monty Rifkin persuaded his partner,
Page 40 and 41: The Cusp of Growth A decade after p
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Page 44 and 45: Public access programming, such as
Page 46 and 47: TOP ATC’s status as a profitable,
Page 48 and 49: Pete Conrad: The Right Stuff ATC’
Page 50 and 51: Judy Braden, dispatch supervisor in
Page 52 and 53: Rifkin followed Walt Disney into th
Page 54 and 55: “It Was Easy to Get Ahead” Ambi
Page 56 and 57: Many early cable television program
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Sterling Manhattan struggled to exp
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Demo vans that crisscrossed the cit
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“If I Could Ever Get Into Anythin
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Quick to grasp the potential of sat
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RIGHT Ted Turner’s willingness to
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TOP Warner Cable’s two-way, inter
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Warner Cable raced to produce or ac
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“If the Price Is Right …” The
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In order to control costs that were
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Jim Gray led Warner Cable during a
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Seven technicians who joined the co
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TOP Terry O’Connell was one of se
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Jack Gault, named president of ATC
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The collapse of Warner Communicatio
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David O’Hayre, head of ATC’s me
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Nick Nicholas, named president of T
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TOP Jim Chiddix, who moved from Haw
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1986 IPO Values ATC at $1.6 Billion
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ATC to Stamford, Connecticut When N
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The merger nearly foundered on the
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Dick Aurelio, the former New York C
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“Cable’s Finest Hour” CNN had
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Veteran Warner Cable engineer Roose
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Becoming Time Warner Cable After mo
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Jerry Levin, who was named co-CEO o
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Despite the initial handshakes and
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The Full Service Network demonstrat
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“The Reality Was the Complexity
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Retransmission Consent The cable te
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Social Contract While Time Warner C
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Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin ignored
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RIGHT Jerry Levin, right, and Ted T
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Consumer demand for cable news prog
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“We Can’t Let Them Do This” W
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Venturing Abroad With the ’92 Act
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The 1996 Telecommunications Act, si
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As far as the visitors from Intel w
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Road Runner, the first cable-delive
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“The Feeling of Satisfaction was
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Jim Gray, right, who retired from T
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AthenaTV, a satellite-based joint e
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Chief technology officer Mike LaJoi
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Time Warner president Richard Parso
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America Online Chairman and CEO Ste
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AOL Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin, le
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“My sense was that the Internet a
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Within a few months of the AOL-Time
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RIGHT AOL Time Warner Chief Technol
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AT&T chairman and CEO Michael Armst
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Bob Pittman, the former AOL CEO who
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Advance/Newhouse to Bright House By
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Time Warner Cable’s NY1 acts as t
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The company-wide rollout of Voice o
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Time Warner Cable technicians answe
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Glenn Britt reached into the Time W
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TOP The 2004 conviction of Adelphia
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“I Felt I Was Truly Valued by Thi
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Shortly after Time Warner Cable wen
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“How Does It Get Better Than That
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Chairman and CEO Glenn Britt, cente
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Ads and other marketing materials p
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Time Warner Cable’s board of dire
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192 Afterword
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Acknowledgments We would like to th
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196 Notes
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12 ATC company timeline, p. 1. 13
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102 “The World of Business Deal o
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74 Time Warner, Form 10-K for the y
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Photo Credits Introduction iv-v Tim
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Index A “Abel Cable” 11 Aberdee
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M MacKinnon, Gail 135-136 Maffei, G
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