The National Cable Television Cooperative sent a letter this week asking its members to write to the White House asking the Obama administration to initiate a process to update the retransmission consent system. The petition drive originated with NCTC and American Cable Association member Mediacom,...Learn More

Mediacom will soon offer a TV Everywhere platform, powered through Synacor. Slated for launch later this year, Mediacom subscribers will access content from the Mediacom portal or from programmer websites, according to a press release. “It is Mediacom branded, contains a great video search and discovery...Learn More

We’ve been following cable’s move into the business services market, both SMB and enterprise, for some time now. Larger cable companies are having great success there. That success is trickling down, as smaller tier 2 cable companies are now aggressively chasing the lucrative business services...Learn More

Was it a violation of broadband stimulus requirements? Or is it merely a frivolous attempt by an incumbent cable service provider to thwart new competition? That’s what the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture will have to decide, now that Mediacom Communications has...Learn More

Mediacom, Iowa’s largest cable MSO, announced they are close to completing an all digital transition for their eastern Iowa properties. The transition will reclaim bandwidth used for analog channels – bandwidth they can then use for more HD programming and faster broadband speeds in those...Learn More

Current Mediacom Chairman and CEO Rocco B. Commisso wants Mediacom, and it looks like he may get his wish. The rural cable MSO’s board has accepted his offer of $8.75/share for all of the outstanding common stock that Commisso doesn’t already own. Commisso attempted to...Learn More

The move to whole home DVR continues with cable MSO Mediacom the latest video service provider to launch the service. Mediacom announced the competitive feature will initially be launched in its Illinois markets, including “more than 200 Illinois communities located between Rock Island and Champaign...Learn More

Mediacom, the nation’s 7th largest cable MSO, has received an offer to take the company private from its current CEO and founder Rocco B. Commisso. The Middletown, New York based MSO has about 1.3 million subscribers and serves primarily rural markets, many of which with...Learn More

Suddenlink announced today they have launched a cable broadband service with max speeds of 107 Mbps. “Based on our research, we believe this residential download speed to be the fastest available in the U.S. today,” said Suddenlink CEO Jerry Kent. The DOCSIS 3.0 (D3) powered...Learn More

Mediacom has selected Waterloo, Iowa as its launch market for a new DOCSIS 3.0 (D3) powered 105 Mbps broadband service. “That will make it the fastest Internet service in North America,” Lee Grassley, Mediacom’s senior manager of government relations tells WCFCourier.com. The ‘Ultra 105’ broadband...Learn More

Mediacom intends to launch DOCSIS 3.0, or wideband, broadband service in eleven markets by December.  Of the eleven markets, nine will have a 50 Mbps tier and two will offer a 100 Mbps tier. Mediacom announced the DOCSIS 3.0 roadmap on their November 6th quarterly...Learn More

Cable MSOs Mediacom and Suddenlink have inked a co-branding deal with Blockbuster. As a result the two cable companies which serve primarily rural and small markets in the Midwest and South will rebrand their VOD service as Blockbuster. The new arrangement will begin in Suddenlink’s...Learn More