Cox: Media Conglomerate To Take Cable Network Private
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The very private Cox family is about to get more so. Cox Enterprises said yesterday it will buy out the public shares of Cox Communications (nyse: COX - news - people ) for about $8.
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U.S. communications regulators are expected to approve on Tuesday a plan to loosen media ownership restrictions, despite objections from consumer groups and a threat by some U.S. senators to revoke the action.
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Cox Communications Inc., the No. 4 U.S. cable television provider, said late on Tuesday  it formed a committee of independent directors to consider a &#36;7.9 billion offer from its controlling family to take the company private.
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CNNfn, the financial news cable network owned by Time Warner Inc., said Thursday it will cease business operations by mid-December due to growing competitive challenges.
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The CNN cable television news network  said on Thursday it would stop using the Reuters news service,  ending a 27-year relationship, to cut costs and invest in its  own news gathering operations.
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Time Warner plans to split up the Internet access and audience businesses of its AOL segment to run them each independently, Time Warner CEO and President Jeff Bewkes revealed Wednesday.
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Carlyle's cash could come in handy Analysis: Private equity group Carlyle is bidding to take over Virgin Media, the UK's cable monopoly formerly known as NTL. We reckon Branson should take the money. He could get shot of the debt-burdened albatross, and put the money to good use elsewhere in the Virgin telco empire.â¦
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TiVo Inc. Thursday said it had agreed to provide cable company Cox Communications with software for digital video recorders.
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The CNN cable television news network said on Thursday it would stop using the Reuters news service, ending a 27-year relationship, to contain costs and invest in its own news gathering operations.
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New lawsuit wants a court to order that cable, satellite and media companies allow subscribers to pick channels individually--an idea they have fiercely resisted in the past.
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Â· New media anxious about cooperation with CNN  Â· News giant to have final say over list of questions
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Variety - NEW YORK -- News Corp. is planning a sports cable network to take on ESPN, but the decision to greenlight the net will hinge on negotiations currently under way with the NFL.
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Regular columnist Bill Thompson says what counts as private has to change if we're to get the most out the network.
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Cox Enterprises Inc. on Tuesday said it will purchase Cox Communications Inc.&#39;s (COX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) minority public stake for $8.
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Business & money: Cable company says it has received a takeover bid and is considering potential sale.
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Newspaper and television station owner   Tribune Co.'s TRB.N board is expected to consider options at   its meeting on Thursday that include going private in a   leveraged buyout or spinning off its TV station group, The Wall   Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON -- Comcast Corp. , the nation's largest cable operator, would be effectively barred from buying any other large cable company under an ownership rule the Federal Communications Commission is considering.