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Cablevision Group: Holdings

Cablevision holdings

This listing is indicative only.


Cable television

Cablevision Cable System

Optimum TV

Telephony

Cablevision Lightpath - regional phone service

Optimum Telephone - regional phone service

ISP

Optimum Online - high speed cable modem access

Cable programming

Rainbow Media Holdings (with NBC and MGM 20%) includes -

  • American Movie Classics - national channel
  • Independent Film Channel - national channel
  • WE: Women's Entertainment - national channel
  • News 12 - regional news service in Long Island, Connecticut, Westchester, the Bronx and New Jersey
  • Romance Classics - national channel
  • extrahelp

Rainbow Media/Regional Programming Partners (affiliated with Fox Sports Net)

  • Fox Sports Bay Area (50% by Regional Programming Partners and Fox)
  • Fox Sports Chicago (50% by Regional Programming Partners and Fox)
  • Fox Sports New England
  • Fox Sports New York
  • Fox Sports Ohio

Madison Square Garden Network
Radio City Productions

MuchMusic (50% with Canada's Chum network) - 24 hour music channel

Sport

Madison Square Garden Properties (News has 20% stake, ITT has 7.8% stake)

New York Knicks

New York Rangers

New York Liberty (WNBA)

New England Seawolves (Arena Football League)

Hartford Wolf Pack (American Hockey League)

Multimedia

EZSeek - online content development

Salon.com (10%)

IFilm.com (5%)

Cinemas and theatres

Clearview Cinemas - 65 theaters (around 300 screens) in New York area

Radio City Music Hall

Radio City Productions

Cablevision's Rainbow DBS satellite broadcasting arm (offering the Voom digital broadcast service) was sold to EchoStar in January 2005 for US$200 million. The sale included Cablevision's satellite - Rainbow 1 - and federal licenses to construct and operate satellite services over 11 frequency channels. It also included the RDBS ground facility in Black Hawk, South Dakota.