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Cablevision Buys Newsday, Stiffs Paper’s Journalists: But when the time finally came for the officially sanctioned interview of Chairman James Dolan, it appeared not in Newsday but on the Cablevision-owned News 12 channel. “Dolan did a 10-, 15-minute interview with News 12, which is what ...

Cablevision/Newsday deal raises interesting questions: I didn't have Cablevision as a kid. At the time I didn't know or care how the cable business worked, of course. All I knew was that when I turned on my TV the Rangers and Knicks were on it and the Islanders and Nets were not. ...

Crazy Cablevision (CVC) Paying 2X More Than News (NWS) for Newsday: The dean of newspaper demise, Alan Mutter, observes that Cablevision's Dolans (CVC) are actually paying about 2.5 times as much for Newsday as Rupert Murdoch thought it was worth (logic below) and about the same amount as has been paid ...

What’s Up With Cablevision Buying Newsday?: Wall Street analysts remain baffled over Cablevision System Corp.’s $650 million purchase of Newsday Media Group from Tribune Co. earlier this week. They’re asking what does a cable multiple system operator know about the challenging, ...

Marvin Kitman: Why Cablevision Bought Newsday: Wall Street is baffled by Cablevision's apparent purchase of Newsday, beating out two passionate newspaper proprietors, both of whom lusted for the Long island newspaper. Mort Zuckerman of the New York Daily News and Rupert Murdoch of ...

Cablevision Balks at Clearwire?: I found this over at CableRant. Pretty cool for those of us in the Cablevision service area.

Cablevision Wi-Fi: I just found this article online. This sounds really cool. No more paying T-Mobile to cruise the internet when I'm not in my house.

Newsday Staffer On Cablevision's Dolan Family: "They're The Only ...: Ask any Knicks beat reporter about life at Madison Square Garden (as we did for a November article in these pages), and you'll get your share of war stories about Cablevision's Moscow-like media policies. ...

Why did Cablevision buy Newsday? This week's big media news is the ...: This week's big media news is the acquisition of Long Island-New York-area tabloid Newsday by cable TV company Cablevision. Cablevision bought the rag from the tottering Tribune Company, for over $620. In doing so, Cablevision outbid ...

Newsday press issue awaits Cablevision: Murdoch and Cablevision could still collaborate on printing, though experts doubted three large papers could be produced economically from one factory. Some said the trend was toward outsourcing press operations, as is planned for the ...