Altice USA

American telecommunications and media company; spin-off of Altice Europe

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2023 Altice USA sold Cheddar to media company Archetype.
April 2022 Announced the rebranding of the former Suddenlink brand under the Optimum name.
April 6 2021 Morris Broadband acquisition is closed, with plans to rebrand it under the Optimum name.
March 1 2021 Altice USA announces acquisition of Morris Broadband in North Carolina for $310 million.
February 14 2020 Altice USA announces purchase of Service Electric Broadband Cable in New Jersey, with the deal closing in July.
April 30 2019 Altice USA announces acquisition of Cheddar for $200 million in cash.
September 22 2018 21st Century Fox announced the potential removal of all its entertainment and sports channels from Altice's network, including Fox owned-and-operated station WNYW and MyNetworkTV O&O WWOR-TV, if a new retransmission agreement was not reached by October 1
February 13 2018 Altice and Starz resolved their carriage dispute by reaching a new multi-year agreement, ending the channel blackout.
January 8 2018 Altice NV announces spin-off of Altice USA into a separate company, with Patrick Drahi maintaining control.
January 1 2018 Altice dropped Starz, Starz Encore, and all of their channels from its channel lineup due to a carriage dispute, after failing to reach an agreement.
October 1 2017 Altice reached a last-minute agreement with The Walt Disney Company to continue carrying Disney's channels, narrowly avoiding a potential blackout of ABC-owned stations and ESPN networks. As part of the deal, ESPN Classic was removed from Altice's channel lineup.
August 2017 Stated the company was on track to reach one million fiber-to-the-home connections by the end of 2018.
June 2017 Raised US$2.2 billion in an initial public stock offering (IPO).
May 2017 Altice USA announces plans to rebrand Suddenlink and Cablevision properties under the Altice name by end of Q2 2018.
March 2017 Altice USA acquired Audience Partners, a provider of audience-based digital advertising solutions.
February 2017 Launched i24NEWS in the United States, expanding into international news broadcasting.
December 28 2016 Altice reached a last-minute carriage agreement with AMC Networks, resolving their dispute just three days before their contract was set to expire on December 31, 2016.
November 2016 Announced a five-year plan for fiber-to-the-home service to build a network capable of delivering 10 Gbit/s broadband speed.
June 21 2016 Cablevision acquisition is closed, with Altice paying $34.90 per share and assuming the company's debt.
May 3 2016 FCC approves the Cablevision acquisition.
December 21 2015 Acquisition of Suddenlink Communications is completed.
September 17 2015 Altice NV announces intention to acquire Cablevision from the Dolan family for $17.7 billion.
May 20 2015 Altice NV announces its entry into the U.S. cable market by purchasing Suddenlink Communications for $9.1 billion.

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