Bye Adelphia

Adelphia Communications fraud victims: Your day has finally come. The federal government said it received more than $530 million from the company that it will distribute to victims of the cable operator’s fraud. According to a press release, potential victims and other interested persons may obtain further information by calling 1-866-446-4884, or by logging on to the Adelphia Victim Fund Web site. Both the hotline and the Web site were established exclusively for the Adelphia case.

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NEW YORK — A lawyer for creditors of the defunct cable operator Adelphia said Thursday that several remaining disputes had been resolved, giving the debtor sufficient approval of its plan to exit bankruptcy.

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Time Warner and Comcast Complete Adelphia Communications Transactions
Comcast's Interests in Time Warner Cable Redeemed

NEW YORK and PHILADELPHIA, July 31, 2006 - Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) and Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq:CMCSA, CMCSK) today announced that they completed the acquisition of substantially all of Adelphia Communications Corporation's assets.


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Three Washington-area House members asked the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday to make Comcast Corp.'s proposed merger with Adelphia Communications Corp. contingent on Comcast entering binding arbitration to settle the dispute with Mid-Atlantic Sports Network over the airing of Washington Nationals baseball games.

The proposal by Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., James Moran, D-Va., and Albert Wynn, D-Md., is the latest effort by federal and local officials to resolve a dispute that prevents 1.3 million Nationals fans from seeing most games on TV.

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The judge, at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, approved a break-up fee payment to Time Warner Inc. of $352.8 million and a similar payment to Comcast of $87.5 million. This effectively reduces the $17.6 billion sale of the bankrupt cable operator's assests by $440 million.

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"Despite our best efforts, the creditors' disputes remain unresolved," said William Schleyer, chairman and CEO of Adelphia. "Removing the requirement for a confirmed Plan of Reorganization for Adelphia greatly increases the odds of Adelphia's sale closing in a timely manner.

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An unlikely coalition of activist groups, satellite and cable providers, and independent TV channels have teamed up to make trouble for Comcast Corp., Time Warner Inc. and the two companies' $17.5 billion plan to carve up once-bankrupt Adelphia Corp.

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With RGB's Simulcast Edge Processor serving the needs of existing analog subscribers, Adelphia's digital subscribers will be able receive one hundred percent of their channels in digital, allowing Adelphia to make the conversion to lower cost digital set-top boxes, offer targeted services such as zoned ad insertion, and deliver additional revenue-generating digital services. RGB's edge processor simplifies the transition to all-digital by providing a complete edge decoding and modulation solution in a one rack unit device.

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LOS ANGELES - Mixed Signals, Inc., providers of digital content monitoring systems, announced the deployment of their Sentry™ Digital Content Monitor in the Adelphia Cable System in Ontario, California. The monitoring solution will provide digital advertisement tracking and auditing in the Los Angeles area for Adelphia’s digital network.

Story here.

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Ciena® Corporation (Nasdaq: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced that Adelphia Communications Corporation, a leading U.S. cable provider, has deployed Ciena's optical Ethernet platforms across western New York to interconnect 106 school districts serving 189,000 students with a wide range of applications for distance learning, including video conferencing and broadband data networking.

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Despite its sale to Time Warner Cable and Comcast, Adelphia continues with plans for its digital simulcast.

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Adelphia Communications may not be much longer for this world. But North America's fifth biggest MSO, which Time Warner Cable and Comcast Corp. plan to split between them, still wants to block those nasty computer worms and spam from reaching its high-speed data users.

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Adelphia Communications Corporation today filed a revised draft fourth amended plan of reorganization with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

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Adelphia Extends Partnership with Gotuit Media to Enhance On Demand Programming with Personalized Viewing
Viewers to have instant access to the best moments in television


BUFFALO, N.Y., Oct 10, 2005 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Adelphia Communications and Gotuit Media Corp, the leading provider of personalized on demand products, today announced an extension of their partnership to bring Gotuit's on demand products -- Gotuit Music On Demand(TM), Gotuit News On Demand(TM), and Gotuit Sports On Demand(TM) -- to Adelphia's digital subscribers in the Western New York area.

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