Altice USA
American telecommunications and media company; spin-off of Altice Europe
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2023 | Altice USA sold Cheddar to media company Archetype. |
April 2022 | Announced the rebranding of the former Suddenlink brand under the Optimum name. |
April 6 2021 | Morris Broadband acquisition is closed, with plans to rebrand it under the Optimum name. |
March 1 2021 | Altice USA announces acquisition of Morris Broadband in North Carolina for $310 million. |
February 14 2020 | Altice USA announces purchase of Service Electric Broadband Cable in New Jersey, with the deal closing in July. |
April 30 2019 | Altice USA announces acquisition of Cheddar for $200 million in cash. |
September 22 2018 | 21st Century Fox announced the potential removal of all its entertainment and sports channels from Altice's network, including Fox owned-and-operated station WNYW and MyNetworkTV O&O WWOR-TV, if a new retransmission agreement was not reached by October 1 |
February 13 2018 | Altice and Starz resolved their carriage dispute by reaching a new multi-year agreement, ending the channel blackout. |
January 8 2018 | Altice NV announces spin-off of Altice USA into a separate company, with Patrick Drahi maintaining control. |
January 1 2018 | Altice dropped Starz, Starz Encore, and all of their channels from its channel lineup due to a carriage dispute, after failing to reach an agreement. |
October 1 2017 | Altice reached a last-minute agreement with The Walt Disney Company to continue carrying Disney's channels, narrowly avoiding a potential blackout of ABC-owned stations and ESPN networks. As part of the deal, ESPN Classic was removed from Altice's channel lineup. |
August 2017 | Stated the company was on track to reach one million fiber-to-the-home connections by the end of 2018. |
June 2017 | Raised US$2.2 billion in an initial public stock offering (IPO). |
May 2017 | Altice USA announces plans to rebrand Suddenlink and Cablevision properties under the Altice name by end of Q2 2018. |
March 2017 | Altice USA acquired Audience Partners, a provider of audience-based digital advertising solutions. |
February 2017 | Launched i24NEWS in the United States, expanding into international news broadcasting. |
December 28 2016 | Altice reached a last-minute carriage agreement with AMC Networks, resolving their dispute just three days before their contract was set to expire on December 31, 2016. |
November 2016 | Announced a five-year plan for fiber-to-the-home service to build a network capable of delivering 10 Gbit/s broadband speed. |
June 21 2016 | Cablevision acquisition is closed, with Altice paying $34.90 per share and assuming the company's debt. |
May 3 2016 | FCC approves the Cablevision acquisition. |
December 21 2015 | Acquisition of Suddenlink Communications is completed. |
September 17 2015 | Altice NV announces intention to acquire Cablevision from the Dolan family for $17.7 billion. |
May 20 2015 | Altice NV announces its entry into the U.S. cable market by purchasing Suddenlink Communications for $9.1 billion. |
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