Charter Communications Company Description
Charter Communications is a cable television system operator with more than 5 million residential and commerical subscribers in 40 US states, making it the #4 cable company, behind Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications. Not just a leading cable TV player, Charter offers broadband Internet and computer telephony services (it has almost a million phone customers), as well as HDTV. Through agreements with Digeo and Oxygen Media, Charter provides interactive television services. The company also derives a portion of its revenue from the sale of local advertising on such satellite networks as MTV and CNN. Chairman Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, controls about 90% of Charter's voting power.
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The Company Description provides a historical perspective of Charter Communications's organization from inception to current status.
Produced by Hoover's in-house editorial team, the Company Description tracks ownership transitions, company progress via mergers and acquisitions, major growth milestones, and strategic initiatives, to provide a holistic view of Charter Communications's evolution in the marketplace.
