Charter Communications, Inc.

St. Louis, MO United States

  (NASDAQ: CHTR)

Company Description

Charter Communications navigates the waters of US cable services. The cable system operator has about 5 million mostly-residential subscribers in 25 states, making it one of the top national cable companies, behind Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications. Besides its some 4.3 million video customers (about 80% opting for the digital service), Charter also has about 3.7 million broadband Internet subscribers, and about 2 million computer telephony users. The company also derives revenue from the sale of local advertising on such cable networks as MTV, CNN, and ESPN. Charter Communications, which skirted bankruptcy for years, began and completed a reorganization under Chapter 11 protection in 2009.