![]() In May 2011, Cablevision rebranded the Bresnan systems as Optimum West. This is the first time in a decade that Cablevision has owned systems outside the New York area (although Bresnan, like Cablevision, had its headquarters in the New York City suburbs). Bresnan provided service to about 308,000 cable subscribers in Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming. On June 13, 2010, Cablevision announced that it would acquire Bresnan Communications for $1.37 billion. AT&T sold its share of Cablevision in 2001. As part of the deal, Cablevision traded its Boston area systems for MediaOne's Hudson Valley systems. In 2000, Cablevision sold-off its remaining systems outside the New York area in Boston, Cleveland, and Kalamazoo, Michigan to MediaOne, Adelphia, and Charter Communications respectively. In 1999, AT&T Corporation took over TCI thus giving them the one-third ownership in Cablevision. ![]() Cablevision gained 10 New York area cable systems from TCI and in exchange TCI gained 33% ownership in the company. One major transaction made at this time was with Tele-Communications Inc. Despite reducing the number of areas served they were able to bring the number of subscribers to 3.5 million through these transactions. Through a series of transactions in the late 1990s, Cablevision decided to consolidate their cable systems into three core areas: New York, Cleveland, and Boston. By the mid-1990s Cablevision would offer service to 2.9 million subscribers in 19 states. In the 1980s, Cablevision also expanded into the Chicago, Boston, and Cleveland areas. Cablevision also built systems throughout the New York metro area: some of the other boroughs of New York City, New Jersey, Westchester County, and Connecticut. Cablevision, having changed its name from CableVision, quickly expanded by building on Long Island and acquiring smaller cable systems from other providers. He used the money to start a new cable system in suburban Long Island called CableVision. ![]() He ended up selling both the cable system and HBO to Time Life Inc. In the mid-1960s, Charles Dolan built a cable system called Sterling Manhattan Cable in the borough of Manhattan and launched Home Box Office (HBO). The former Cablevision services operate under Altice USA which continues to operate brands Optimum Online, Optimum Voice, and Optimum TV. On June 21, 2016, Cablevision was acquired by European telecom conglomerate Altice. Cablevision also offered a WiFi-only mobile phone service dubbed Freewheel. Cablevision also offered high-speed Internet connections ( Optimum Online), digital cable ( Optimum TV/ IO Digital Cable), and VoIP ( Optimum Voice) phone service (the eighth-largest telephone provider in the U.S.) through its Optimum brand name. However, at one time it provided service in as many as 19 states. Throughout its existence and in its final years, Cablevision exclusively served customers residing in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and a small part of Pennsylvania. ![]() It was the fifth-largest cable provider and ninth-largest television provider in the United States. Cablevision Systems Corporation was an American cable television company with systems serving areas surrounding New York City.
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