Madison Square Garden is controlled by the Dolan family, which also controls Cablevision Systems Corp.
Cablevision Systems sued Viacom this week over a practice that drives many consumers nuts: Bundling.
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Cablevision Systems Corp. (NYSE: CVC) today announced the availability of ESPN3 to Optimum Online customers.
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Fallen by the wayside are potential suitors Cablevision Systems and SBC Communications .
Cablevision Systems Corporation is one of the nation's leading media and telecommunications companies.
Companies that present similar problems and similar shareholder discontent, for example Vornado Realty Trust and Cablevision Systems, should beware.
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Cablevision Systems ( CVC - news - people ), another Long Island media company, which took over operation of the newspaper in July 2008.
Among the possibilities: EchoStar could yield some of its satellite slots to Cablevision Systems (nyse: CVS - news - people ), strengthening a potential satellite rival.
In Long Island, New York, for instance, customers can choose between Cablevision Systems (NYSE:CVC), and Verizon (NYSE:VZ), while in Westchester, New York, between Cablevision Systems and Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC).
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Time Warner Cable and Cablevision Systems both grew profits despite losing subscribers in the third quarter, as premium phone, internet and television services allowed both companies to squeeze more out of each customer.
Cablevision Systems and DirecTV have increased their monthly fees too subscribers almost three-fold on average, and the expectation is for cable rates to keep rising despite more people cutting their cable cords.
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Other major shareholders include Comcast (nyse: CCZ - news - people ), Cox Communications (nyse: COX - news - people ) and Cablevision Systems (nyse: CVC - news - people ).
Cablevision Systems (nyse: CVC - news - people ) shares are lower on analyst comments that the cable company's value could fall if a dispute with Time Warner (nyse: TWX - news - people ) isn't resolved.
CloudTV is available on more than 10 million devices in the United States and abroad with Cablevision Systems, Ziggo, Oceanic Time Warner Cable and other operators, as well as on Philips-brand NetTVs, and is powering advanced user experiences for Net2TV, a virtual service provider.
At the moment, only Cablevision Systems (nyse: CVC - news - people ) has the service available in all its markets, although other providers including Time Warner (nyse: TWX - news - people ) are aggressively deploying it.
Sony made its first attempt at the market for interactive TV in late 1999, when it signed a deal to provide three million digital set-top boxes to Cablevision Systems (nyse: CVC - news - people ) subscribers in the New York City area.
The Time Warner cable systems in the New York City area, says Cablevision's cable president, Thomas M.
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