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Daily Archives : Aug 5, 2013

Are Cox and Charter, the Nation’s 3rd- and 4th-Largest MSOs, Talking Merger?

"Cox Communications Inc., the third-largest U.S. cable provider, has held talks about combining with Charter Communications Inc. [the fourth-largest U.S. cable provider], according to two people with knowledge of the matter," writes Alex Sherman on the website of Bloomberg.com. The story…

Sale of Boston Globe — for a Fraction of its $1.1 Billion Purchase Price in 1993 — Cited as a Milestone in Decline of Newspapers

The Boston Globe was sold to Fenway Sports Group, whose chairman is "The Cosby Show" executive producer Tom Werner, and the sale, for $70 million, is "the latest milestone in the story of newspapers’ decline in the digital age," reports…