10/21/09 -- RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI) announced today it will offer a free preview of the NHL® Center Ice® package now through October 24, 2009. NHL Center Ice features up to 40 out-of-market NHL® games each week during the regular season.

Also included in the digital cable package are games from the first two rounds of the Stanley Cup® Playoffs and premier Canadian match-ups. Other enhancements that have been made to last year's package include:


-- NHL® Center Ice® LEAGUEWIDE: Offers multiple screens so viewers
can watch all the games airing on NHL Center Ice at one time.
-- NHL Center Ice Extra(TM): Live source for scores, statistics, game
previews, game recaps and schedule information.
-- Dual feeds: Lets viewers choose their home town announcers for select
games.
-- Replay games: Select games will be replayed continuously until the
following day's matches begin.
-- High Definition quality: For up to 12 games per week.


RCN is a leading provider of all-digital and high definition video, high-speed internet, and premium voice services to residential and small-medium business customers, as well as high-capacity transport services to carrier and large enterprise customers.

"We are excited to offer a free preview of the enhanced NHL Center Ice to our customers," said Richard Ramlall, SVP, Strategic External Affairs and Programming at RCN. "Hockey fans will now be able to watch their favorite teams while listening to familiar announcers, stay on top of team stats and catch up on games they missed."

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by mincho2008 - Monday, 19 October 2009

RCN Corporation announced today that it continues to expand its international programming with the addition of three Greek Channels: MEGA Cosmos, ALTER Globe and STAR International.
RCN Corporation is a leading provider of all-digital and high definition video, high-speed internet, and premium voice services to residential and small-medium business customers, in Philadelphia, Lehigh Valley, PA, New York, Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C., as well as high-capacity transport services to carrier and large enterprise customers.

"RCN is committed to delivering a wide variety of quality international content to our subscribers," said Richard Ramlall, SVP, Strategic External Affairs and Programming at RCN. "We think these three excellent channels will prove to be extremely popular with the Greek-American communities that we serve in our markets."

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Mike Reynolds -- Multichannel News, 10/19/2009 1:10:04 PM
RCN Corp. has added CLTV, Chicagoland Television news channel to its roster in the Second City.

Associated Press, 10.16.09, 06:15 PM EDT

HERNDON, Va. -- RCN Corp., a video, data and voice services provider, said Friday it has named Casimir S.

RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI), announced today it will carry the new, NFL RedZone channel starting this weekend on Sept. 13.

Tyrone Richardson - THE MORNING CALL
September 11, 2009

Like a lot of RCN customers, Randy Laughlin got a shock with his bill last week -- a letter saying he has to have converter boxes on his televisions by Sept. 22 or he won't get cable reception.

By Rajani Baburajan
TMCnet Contributor


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RCN Metro Optical Networks, a provider of fiber optic-based network solutions, reportedly announced upgrades to the access layer of its Ethernet network to include 10 Gigabit Metro Ethernet-based transport at several key locations.



The upgrade, driven by the demand for increased bandwidth, will provide RCN (News - Alert) Metro customers with greater scalability, reducing the amount of time needed to increase bandwidth to mere days – resulting in enhanced network performance.

BOSTON, MA -- 08/28/09 -- RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI), a leading provider of all-digital and high definition video, high-speed internet, and premium voice services to residential and small-medium business customers, as well as high-capacity transport services to carrier and large enterprise customers, announced today it will partner with the American Red Cross as part of its Fall Rush campaign. This year's promotion includes two blood drives and three "True Blood" themed events where guests will have an opportunity to enjoy music and refreshments as well as free tastings of Tru Blood, the highly anticipated real blood orange beverage from HBO.

(Marketwire) -- 08/25/09 -- RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI), a leading provider of all-digital and high definition video, high-speed internet, and premium voice services to residential and small-medium business customers, as well as high-capacity transport services to carrier and large enterprise customers, is currently offering ESPN GamePlan(TM) as part of its pay-per-view cable television service.

ESPN GamePlan is the only pay-per-view package that offers the maximum amount of college football with up to 12 games every Saturday.

Mike Reynolds -- Multichannel News, 8/10/2009 3:10:05 PM EDT

NBC Universal has reached a deal with RCN to launch mun2, its bicultural lifestyle service aimed at Latinos 18 to 34.

Under the deal, terms of which were not disclosed, RCN will make mun2, which currently counts some 32 million subscribers, available to its subscribers on its Signature (expanded basic) level of service in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, D.C.

-- 07/22/09 -- RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI), a leading provider of digital and high definition video, high-speed internet, and premium voice services to residential and small-medium business customers, as well as high-capacity transport services to carrier and large enterprise customers, today announced that it will begin switching its Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania network to all digital Cable TV programming, starting in September.

This digital conversion, which is expected to begin in Allentown and be rolled out on a community by community basis, enables RCN to reclaim existing analog channels, improve the picture quality, make the network easier to maintain, and dramatically increase the number of standard and High Definition (HD) channels it can offer to customers.

By Cecilia Kang


RCN, the Herndon cable network operator that has been searching for ways to expand, has offered to purchase New York-based network services firm FiberNet Telecom for $96 million -- setting off a bidding war in the process.

The offer, made earlier this month, came after FiberNet's May 28 announcement that it would be bought by Zayo, a network operator based in Louisville, for about $88 million.

One term in the Zayo agreement allowed FiberNet to entertain any higher offers made before June 17. RCN said it sent FiberNet a letter on June 16 with a proposal to buy it for $12.50 a share in cash, which was higher than Zayo's offer of $11.45 a share.

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DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
FiberNet Telecom Group Inc. (FTGX) is moving ahead with its May agreement to be sold to Zayo Group for $86 million, saying a higher bid from RCN Corp.

RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI), a leading provider of digital and high definition video, high-speed internet, and premium voice services to residential and small-medium business customers, as well as high-capacity transport services to carrier and large enterprise customers, today announced its PA market has once again received "Best of the Valley" awards from votes given by the readers of Lehigh Valley Magazine.

"We are committed to connecting our customers to something more.

Zayo Group LLC might not be FiberNet Telecom’s (FTGX) buyer after all.

Enterprise-minded cable operator RCN (RCNI) has swooped in with a $96 million purchase offer, a sum that certainly surmounts Zayo’s $88 million.

By: Marketwire .

07/06/09 -- RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI), a leading provider of digital and high definition video, high-speed internet, and premium voice services to residential and small-medium business customers, as well as high-capacity transport services to carrier and large enterprise customers, announced today it is the primary provider of Digital Cable TV at the United States Golf Association's (USGA) U.S.

(Marketwire) -- 05/28/09 -- RCN Metro Optical Networks, a division of RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI) and a premier provider of fiber optic-based network solutions, announced today that it has appointed Patrick O'Hare as its new Vice President of Operations.

Based out of the RCN Metro headquarters in New York, O'Hare is responsible for field operations, network operations, inside and outside plant engineering and construction as well as facilities and business continuity/disaster recovery.

By Mike Gaffney

Saugus - Competition could be on the way for cable giant Comcast.

The Board of Selectmen recently sat down with Tom Steele of RCN Corp.

By Cade Metz in San Francisco

n early February, at a net-conscious conference in San Francisco, Edelman exposed one of those online boondoggles that shows you just how much Google overplays the efficiency of its web-dominating ad system.

Using a PC loaded with WhenU - a sly piece of adware along the lines of Gator or Zango - he had recently visited the website run by RCN, a US cable outfit.

By Brian Calloway

RCN raises cable rates 2 percent to 6 percent for area customers

One of those pesky monthly bills is getting a bit peskier for many people across the Lehigh Valley.

RCN Cable, one of the Valley's two major cable providers, is raising rates for its customers.