![]() (TWC's Houston-area cable systems are now owned by Comcast, the parent company of NBCUniversal.) When first launched, it used Scientific-Atlanta set-top boxes with DVR. Time Warner Cable launched DVR service in the Houston area in 2004. This move made Time Warner Cable the largest cable operator in the United States owned solely by a single class of shareholders (without supervoting stock). Non-TW shareholders received 0.083670 shares for each share already owned. Prior to the spin-out, Time Warner had held an 84% stake in Time Warner Cable. Time Warner retained Time Warner Cable as a subsidiary until May 26, 2010, when it was spun out as an independent company. Glenn Britt (1949–2014) was the CEO from 2001 until December 2013. That year, talks began that would later result in Warner's acquisition of Paragon Cable. In 1995, the company launched the Southern Tier On-Line Community in Elmira, New York, a cable modem service later known as Road Runner High Speed Online. Time Warner Cable Group would eventually be merged with Warner Cable & Time Warner Communications into a single division of Time Warner in 1992, utilizing the Time Warner Communications name until 1995, when it was renamed to Time Warner Cable. ATC would eventually be renamed to Time Warner Communications around the same time as well. to create Time-Warner ATC & Warner Cable would eventually become part of a new division known as Time Warner Cable Group. In 1990, Warner Communications officially merged with Time Inc. In the late 1980s, Warner Communications, which was in financial trouble at the time, planned to merge with Time Inc which would lead to ATC becoming a sibling to Warner Cable. In December 1986, American Express sold its half ownership of Warner-Amex Cable back to Warner Communications reverting the name to Warner Cable. which was eventually purchased by Viacom International a year after. On June 25, 1984, it was announced that the channels would be spun off into a public-traded corporation known as MTV Networks Inc. WAC would eventually create the QUBE interactive service until it was shut down in 1984. In 1979, American Express was brought in to form a joint-venture cable network and cable television firm called Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, and eventually Warner Cable was renamed to Warner-Amex Cable. Warner Cable would eventually diversify into channels with the formation of Warner Cable Communications in 1977, creating test channels such as Pinwheel, Star Channel, and even Slight on Sound these would eventually be officially launched as Nickelodeon & The Movie Channel in 1979, and MTV in 1981 respectively. & Warner Communications respectively in the 1970s American Television and Communications, which was established in 1968, and would be acquired by Time in 1977 and Warner Cable, established in 1973. Time Warner Cable traces back to two cable entities owned by Time Inc. ![]() ![]() ![]() The purchase was completed on Charter had continued to do business as Time Warner Cable in its former markets, but has now re-branded these operations under the Spectrum brand in most markets (a brand of Charter which launched in 2014), though it will continue to use the email addresses and email addresses to new customers. On May 26, 2015, Charter Communications announced that it would acquire Time Warner Cable for $78.7 billion, along with Bright House Networks in a separate $10.1 billion deal, pending regulatory approval. ![]() government to try to block the merger, Comcast called off the deal in April 2015. In 2014, the company was the subject of a proposed purchase by Comcast Corporation, valued at $45.2 billion however, following opposition to the deal by various groups, along with plans by the U.S. From 2009 to 2016, Time Warner Cable was an entirely independent company, continuing to use the Time Warner name under license from its former parent company (including the " Road Runner" name for its Internet service, that was merged into what is now Spectrum Internet). The company had spun off its cable operations in March 2009 as part of a larger restructuring. It was controlled by Warner Communications, then by Time Warner (later known as WarnerMedia and presently Warner Bros. Its corporate headquarters were located in the Time Warner Center in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, with other corporate offices in Stamford, Connecticut Charlotte, North Carolina and Herndon, Virginia. Before it was acquired by Charter Communications on May 18, 2016, it was ranked the second largest cable company in the United States by revenue behind only Comcast, operating in 29 states. ( TWC) was an American cable television company. Time Warner Cable building entrance in Morrisville, North Carolina ![]()
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