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LOUISVILLE, KY. (WDRB) -- Louisville could be looking for another cable provider.

(Reporting by Yinka Adegoke, Writing by Michael Erman; Editing by Dale Hudson and Muralikumar Anantharaman)

(Reuters) - Time Warner Cable has reached a deal to buy The Carlyle Group's cable operator Insight Communications Co for around $3 billion in cash, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
Time Warner could announce the deal as soon as Monday morning, the source said.

»us.mobile.reuters.com/article/bu···rpc=932

Insight is the 10th-largest cable operator in the United States, Carlyle's website says. It sells cable television, high-speed Internet and telephone services, serving around 750,000 customers in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.


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May 14, 2011 - TRI-STATE (WFIE) - by Kelsey Wheatcroft

Fox Broadcasting announced on Wednesday that it is severing ties with WTVW (Fox 7).

Fox Broadcasting now has an agreement with WEVV to air the Fox primetime and sports programming on WEVV's secondary channel, which is now called My44.

HD channels that are rumored to be made available in Louisville on April 5th 2011

907 MSNBC HD
909 CNN Headline News HD
911 Univision HD
913 Cooking Ch (FKA Fine Living) HD
916 WBNA (ION) coming mid April
917 DIY Network HD
919 RedZone HD
921 Fox Soccer Channel HD
942 CMT HD
943 VH1 HD
944 MTV HD
948 Investigation Discovery HD
950 Encore HD
956 Fox Movie Channel HD
957 Turner Classic Movies HD
958 Starz Edge HD
959 Starz Kids & Family HD
960 HBO Family HD
961 HBO Signature HD
962 ActionMAX HD
963 The Movie Channel HD
964 Showtime Too HD
965 Smithsonian HD
966 MGM HD
967 BET HD
968 CBS College Sports HD
970 Outdoor Channel HD
971 VERSUS HD
972 Golf Channel HD
973 Tennis Channel HD
975 G4 HD
977 BIO HD
978 Nickelodeon HD
980 Disney XD HD
981 Cartoon Network HD
987 Hallmark Channel HD
986 Lifetime Movie Network HD
988 WE: Women's Entertainment HD
989 E! Entertainment HD
990 Style HD
992 BBC America HD
993 Planet Green HD
994 Spike TV HD
995 truTV HD
997 Comedy Central HD

Associated Press

LOUISVILLE — A group of customers is suing Lexington's cable television provider over the rental fees they pay for digital converter boxes.

The customers argue in the federal lawsuit that Insight Communications should allow subscribers to shop around for a box they can buy in order to eliminate a monthly $15.95 charge for premium services.

By Samantha Bookman

Since early May, the talk of whole home DVR service has given way to reality as cable operators, one by one, launch their new offerings to subscribers across the U.S. Cox Communications got the ball rolling as the first cable operator to announce its service, and two more providers were quick to chime in.

BY DAN KLEPAL

Insight Communications, whose franchise agreement with the city is up for renewal next year, has offered free tickets and access to a luxury suite to several Louisville Metro Council members for Friday's basketball game between the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville.

Two council members — Democrats Dan Johnson and Bob Henderson — say they are considering paying the $35 face value of the tickets to attend, despite an opinion from Louisville Ethics Commission Chairman Jonathan Ricketts that accepting the tickets could violate city ethics laws.

It's not advertised yet, but it is available in Evansville, IN.


Sorry, I'm not good at typing up a story, but I thought you'd like to know.
~Coach Potato~

By Sheldon S. Shafer • sshafer@courier-journal.com • November 19, 2010

The Louisville Metro Council, for now, is holding off approval of an ordinance that would give Insight a 15-year renewal of its cable-television rights in Metro Louisville, retroactive to April 1.

Saying it needed to clarify some lingering questions, the council at its meeting Thursday night voted to refer the franchise-renewal ordinance back to its Public Works and Transportation Committee for further review, even though the committee had voted unanimously on Nov. 10 to recommend that the full council approve the renewal ordinance.


»www.courier-journal.com/article/···renewal

THE COURIER-JOURNAL • NOVEMBER 18, 2010

The Louisville Metro Council will consider an ordinance renewing the city’s cable television franchise with Insight Kentucky Partners Thursday night.

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The Courier-Journal • November 8, 2010

The Transportation and Public Works Committee of the Louisville Metro Council has scheduled a public hearing for 3 p.m. Wednesday on the pending renewal of a cable-television franchise with Insight Kentucky Partners.

It will be held on the third floor of City Hall at Sixth and Jefferson streets.

“Metro government is required to hold a public hearing before any cable franchise agreement is approved,” said Councilwoman Cheri Bryant Hamilton, D-5th District, who heads the committee. “We want the public to have an opportunity to express any thoughts or concerns they may have about Insight’s operations in the metro area.”

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I've talked for some time about how we’ve been readying our network to support the rollout of DOCSIS 3.0. Today, I'm happy to announce that the rollout of the next generation of broadband will begin soon.

In our Evansville/Henderson and Bowling Green districts, customers will be able to order our first speed enhancement on the DOCIS 3.0 platform -- 50Mbps download/5 Mbps upload -- before the end of this year.

Obviously, this will take the already fastest Internet speeds available in this area to an entirely different level.



From Michael's Insight

By Scott Sloan - ssloan@herald-leader.com Insight Communications, Lexington's cable provider, will begin to transition some of its channel lineup to all-digital later this month.

For a few months now, the company has touted its switch to all-digital, which is requiring customers to install new equipment on televisions that aren't already connected to an Insight digital cable box.

This year, we are thrilled to have reached a deal with the NFL to add RedZone to the Insight lineup.

It’s going to be a whole new football watching experience every Sunday from 1pm—8pm ET during the season (September—December) as NFL RedZone will take fans from game to game to see all the key moments, including live coverage when a team is in the Red Zone.

Insight Communications Co on Wednesday
sold $400 million of senior notes in the 144a private placement
market, said IFR, a Thomson Reuters service. Bank of America Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse
and Morgan Stanley were the joint bookrunning managers for the
sale.

BORROWER: INSIGHT COMMUNICATIONS CO

AMT $400 MLN COUPON 9.375 PCT MATURITY 7/15/2018
TYPE SR NTS ISS PRICE 100 FIRST PAY 1/15/2011
MOODY'S B3 YIELD 9.375 PCT SETTLEMENT 7/7/2010
S&P B-MINUS SPREAD 684 BPS PAY FREQ SEMI-ANNUAL
FITCH N/A MORE THAN TREAS NON-CALLABLE 3 YRS*
*MAKE-WHOLE-CALL 50 BPS

Spotted here

Last month, we announced that Lexington would be Insight’s first market to transition to an all-digital format. Once that transition is completed, customers will have access to more than 100 HD channels, multi-room DVR and the fastest Internet speeds available, including a 50 Mbps service with even faster speeds coming later.

By Michael Willner

Some customers, who prefer to continue to watch their analog TV's without a set top box, voiced concern that they would now need one. That is not the case.

Broadband 30.0 is coming - the fastest Internet in town.

Broadband 30.0 customers will have access to an always-on, reliable 30 Mbps downstream and 3 Mbps upstream connection, again, faster than any other service provider in our area. Broadband 30.0 features access to ESPN 360 online sports programming, free CA Internet security suite and wireless access to your high-speed Internet

Digital 5.0 is here.

We’ve made every channel 100% digital for incredible picture and sound quality.