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4 unusual facts about Cablevision


2011–12 Stony Brook Seawolves men's basketball team

In October 2011, Stony Brook announced a new partnership with New York cable provider Cablevision to broadcast 8 Men's basketball games and 3 Women's basketball games through the Optimum Network in the Long Island area.

Horry Telephone Cooperative

HTC Cablevision is the brand name of cable television service from HTC.

Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research

Thanks to a commitment from Cablevision to underwrite all of The Lustgarten Foundation's administrative expenses, 100% of every donation received goes directly to pancreatic cancer research.

MVDDS

MVDDS spectrum (214 licenses) is held by 11 companies, but the largest chunks are owned by three, South.com (an affiliate of Dish Network) with 37 areas, DTV Norwich (an affiliate of Cablevision) with 46 areas, and MDS Operations (an affiliate of MDS America) with 80 areas.


1993–94 New York Knicks season

This marked the last season in which the Knicks (and all other MSG properties) were owned by Paramount Communications (formerly Gulf+Western), which was sold near the end of the season to Viacom, which in turn sold them to ITT Corporation and Cablevision.

Bill Daniels

Daniel's sponsored the USAC Championship Car campaigns of Texan Lloyd Ruby both in 1970 under the Daniel's Cablevision banner and in 1971 while promoting Daniel's Utah Stars franchise.

Explorer 8300

Several providers currently support external SATA drives, including Time Warner, Comcast, Cablevision, Rogers and Charter.

James Dolan

James L. Dolan (born 1956), American businessman, President and CEO of Cablevision Systems Corporation

Major League Baseball on SportsChannel

In 1996, Wayne Huizenga purchased a 70% controlling interest in SportsChannel Florida from Rainbow Media (by that time, a joint venture between Cablevision and NBC).

MSG Metro Channels

The Mets would leave Cablevision and start their own network, SportsNet New York, at the end of the 2005 season.

By this time, Cablevision removed the channel from its analog lineup and replaced it with TV Land.

News 12 Networks

News 12 Hudson Valley, based at 235 West Nyack Road in West Nyack, New York, launched in 2005 and reaches more than 140,000 homes through the Cablevision and Time Warner Cable (channel 156) systems serving Rockland and Orange counties.

SpeechCycle

SpeechCycle counts as customers the largest cable and telecommunication operators in the US and abroad, such as Cablevision, Charter Communications, Cox, Time Warner Cable, Mediacom, Bresnan, Verizon, and Telstra.

Tennis Channel

On September 4, 2011 during the US Open, the Tennis Channel pulled its signal from Verizon FiOS, Cablevision, Suddenlink Communications, Mediacom, WOW!, Knology and GCI after the providers declined to accept a new agreement that the Tennis Channel made with the National Cable Television Cooperative of which they are members.


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