James L. Dolan is not a man to dodge a fight. When the billionaire owner of the New York Knicks and Rangers received an emotional email from a lifelong fan begging him to sell his hapless basketball ...

Altice continued a string of acquisitions on Thursday when the Amsterdam-based telecommunications giant announced that it would buy Cablevision for $17.7 billion. The Cablevision sale comes six months ...

Multinational cable and telecommunications provider Altice said on Thursday that it would purchase Cablevision Systems for $34.90 per share in cash – a total of $17.7 billion, including debt. This ...

French cable TV giant Altice will group all its operations under its current name by mid-2018 — including the New York area’s Cablevision, which it acquired last year. Altice, founded by ...

It came as a shock to the broadcast world - east coast based Cablevision (CVC) systems, selling the for nearly $18 billion to France’s Altice. Many in the industry felt the Dolan family, who founded ...

Another twist emerged later in the day, when an independent committee of directors accused Dolan of expanding Voom through his newly created Web site in violation of his agreement with Cablevision. A ...

The US Solicitor General, Elena Kagan, used to be Harvard Law’s dean (and Charles Nesson’s boss). These days, though, she represents the US government before the Supreme Court. Her office has just ...