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…
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Mediacom Rolls Whole Home DVR
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…
Mediacom May Go Private, CEO Makes Offer
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…
Mediacom Promises ‘Nation’s Fastest Broadband’
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…
Mediacom Outlines DOCSIS 3.0 Plans
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…
Blockbuster Partners With Suddenlink, Mediacom
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…
Mediacom Begins Broadband Speed Upgrades
Mediacom, the Middletown, New York based cable MSO, reported earlier this month that they would be raising the speeds of the cable modem broadband tiers. They’re keeping their promise. The Des Moines Register is reporting starting Tuesday September 1st, Mediacom…
Mediacom Reports 2Q09 Results
Middletown, New York based Mediacom, the nation’s eighth-largest MSO, reported 2Q09 revenue of $364.5 million, 6% above its year-ago level. Among the 2Q highlights noted by management: video revenues increased 2.8%, primarily due to digital customer growth and, to a…
Mediacom Partners for Interactive News Service
Columbia, MO – May 27, 2009 – Mediacom Communications and Newsy.com (www.newsy.com) have agreed to launch an innovative partnership focused on delivering new forms of news content to Mediacom customers. The partnership will develop and test several different methods of…
Mediacom: DOCSIS 3.0 on the Way
There’s been a lot of news lately concerning DOCSIS 3.0, also referred to as wideband. For all intents and purposes, wideband is the cable industry’s answer to FTTH. Larger MSOs including Comcast and Cox have begun their wideband roll out….
Mediacom: Growing RGUs Accompanied by Loss
Mediacom posted an 8.3% year-over-year increase in Q4 ’08 revenues and a 37.5% rise in operating income today but a net loss of $69.988 million ($0.74 per share), up from the $36.872 million net loss it posted in Q4 ’07….