by Tucker Echols Staff Reporter

RCN Corp., which sells Internet, phone and cable services in several cities, boosted sales last quarter but lost more money.

Herndon-based RCN reported revenue increased 17 percent in the first quarter to $179.8 million, compared to $153.3 million in the year-ago period. The company's net loss widened to $26.2 million from $4.6 million during the same quarter last year when RCN booked a $15.7 million gain on the sale of a discontinued operation.

RCN said it had 421,000 residential and small-business customers at the end of the first quarter, 5,000 more than at the end of the fourth quarter last year and 14,000 more than one year ago.

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Operator Kicks Off Aggressive Software and Video Server Upgrade to
Bring High Definition On-Demand Offerings to Boston, Chicago, New
York, Penn. and D.C.

Today's press release includes a quote from our very own Jason Nealis.

RCN Digital Customers in Lehigh Valley Can Choose When and How They Want to Watch PBS 39’s Tempo & Scholastic Scrimmage Programs & WLVT Documentaries

HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI), a leading local provider of video, data, and voice services to residential, business and commercial/carrier customers, today announced an agreement with PBS 39/WLVT to offer the station’s locally produced documentaries and two weekly programs in RCN ‘s Video ON DEMAND (VOD) library.

"Tempo! and Scholastic Scrimmage are both very popular signature programs on PBS 39 and we are very pleased to be able to offer our customers the opportunity to watch these shows whenever they want,” said Randy Schwartzman, Director of Sales and Marketing, RCN of Pennsylvania.

MLB EXTRA INNINGS brings viewers up to 80 out-of-market regular season Major League Baseball games a week. This means that if people live in one city and their team is in another, MLB EXTRA INNINGS lets them see the match-ups they want to watch.

»www.citizensvoice.com/site/news.···54&rfi=6

Cable overbuilder RCN Corp. is pretty darn serious about migrating to an all-digital video environment.

Washington Business Journal - by Erin Killian Staff Reporter

The Herndon-based company that bundles cable, Internet and phone services said the goal is to help United Way communicate its message at no cost for advertising.

This is the second consecutive year RCN Corp.

By Bob Fernandez - Inquirer Staff Writer

RCN Corp., the Herndon, Va., cable and telecommunications company, says it has installed eight miles of high-capacity fiber-optic cable in Center City to sell data service to financial-services firms, big companies and institutions.
It is the first big advance into Philadelphia since the company emerged from bankruptcy protection in December 2004.

RCN Corp. Tuesday agreed to distribute the Smithsonian Channel high-definition channel as part of an agreement between the cable overbuilder and the service.

With the addition of RCN, the Smithsonian Channel – co-owned by Showtime and the Smithsonian Institute --now reaches 22.5 million multi-platform households. The service reached distribution deals with Charter Communications and Verizon's FiOS TV last month.

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RCN Corp.'s price increase last fall was broader than the company first reported. The company, which has 75,000 television customers in Massachusetts, raised monthly cable TV prices $2.99 in November. But a company executive initially said customers wouldn't be affected if they also had a bundle with phone or Internet service. This week, RCN said some customers with such packages were hit with the price increase. An RCN spokeswoman declined to say how many customers were affected "for competitive reasons." (Todd Wallack)

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by Andrew Baltazar

RCN Corp. announced Tuesday it has begun switching its cable TV services in Chicago to digital, which means customers of the Virginia-based company will have more channels to choose from and better picture and sound quality.

RCN Will Target A Broader Base In & Around Its Service Area; Providing Choice For All Potential Customers Who Have A High Speed Data Connection From Any Provider

HERNDON, Va. & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RCN Corporation a leading provider of video, data, and voice services to residential, business, and commercial/carrier customers, announced today the launch of its new Starpower Internet Phone Service.

By Jim Barthold

It promises to be an interesting year for RCN, a service provider that is neither fish (telco) nor fowl (cable). But then, every year is an interesting year for a company that makes its living trying to chip business away from much bigger competitors.

Construction Proceeds in Lower Mills and surrounding neighborhoods

BOSTON--(Business Wire)--RCN, a local leading provider of triple-play high-speed internet,
cable and phone services, today announced that it continues to expand
its coverage area in Dorchester and Mattapan with the addition of the
Lower Mills neighborhood and surrounding streets.

"RCN is excited to be expanding our services in the City of Boston
and bringing our triple-play bundle to even more Dorchester and
Mattapan residents," said Richard Wadman, senior vice president and
general manager of RCN Boston. "Last summer, RCN rolled out services
in Dorchester, and now we're expanding our coverage area and looking
forward to welcoming even more Dorchester and Mattapan customers to
RCN."

RCN will be expanding to the area of Dorchester and Mattapan
bordered by Gallivan Boulevard, Norfolk Street, Babson Street, River
Street, and Adams Street. Services will also be available on Evans
Street, Fuller Street, Hopkins Street, Hill Top Street, Mildred Ave,
West Seldon Street and surrounding areas.


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RCN Corp., a provider of video, data, and voice services to residential, small business and commercial customers, announced today that all NFL Network games have or will be carried on RCN s digital cable network this season.

RCN customers with Digital Vision Plus cable TV service are able to see the game on NFL Network as part of their regular digital cable, said RCN President & CEO Peter Aquino.

Written by Ernesto on November 06, 2007

There has been a lot of fuss lately about Comcast’s efforts to throttle and interfere with BitTorrent traffic, but they are by no means the only ISP involved in such efforts. Hundreds of larger and smaller ISPs all around the world try to limit BitTorrent traffic on their networks, time to give an overview, the war is on.

By Jon Van | Tribune staff reporter - November 1, 2007

Contracts between cable TV operators and apartment building operators that limit competition were banned Wednesday by an order of the Federal Communications Commission.

The order was welcomed by AT&T Inc.

RCN Basketball fans can now get NBA League Pass. Just in time for the start of the regular season.

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(Crain’s) — The Big Ten Network has a deal to air its sports programming in two markets served by cable TV company RCN Corp., according to a source with knowledge of the deal.

The agreement will bring the new network, a joint venture of the Big Ten athletic conference and Fox Cable Networks, into more Chicago households.

Since RCN uses Aptiv's Passport software, this news may interest some RCN customers with what they might expect in the future. Keep in mind all features are MSO dependent.