"The programming is family friendly, it's advertiser friendly and it's very appealing to the operator community because it will be in high-def and on V.O.D.," Mr. Battista said.
Anyone who wants access to the MSO (multiple system operator) community would want to work with us because no one has the product we have".
And we also built an operator community, but I think that thinking about it in broader terms lead us to a realization that we had last year.
He was 20, a ski-lift operator, a community college student.
Hospital operators like Community, the biggest publicly traded for-profit hospital company, hope to get them.
Other ideas suggested in the white paper include transferring services to private operators or community and voluntary organisations and creating new "local hubs" that include, for example, a health centre, library, neighbourhood office, community centre and police station.
Last week Mr. LaBonge hosted a meeting with tour operators and community members to discuss ideas including rewriting municipal codes to prohibit sidewalk salespeople, forcing tour vans and buses to drive specific routes, and limiting the use of audio equipment.
The Capital Senior Living Corporation, an operator of communities for senior citizens, cut its bid yesterday for ILM Senior Living Inc. and ILM II Senior Living Inc. to $155 million in cash as more competition and higher interest rates have hurt Capital Senior Living's share price.
For example, councils will be given the power to award local licenses and make it easier for not-for-profit operators, including community groups, to run local bus services.
The Cendant Corporation, the hotel franchiser, said yesterday that it would now pay entirely in cash to acquire the time-share resort operator Fairfield Communities, which it valued at about $690 million.
The Cendant Corporation, which franchises everything from Ramada hotels to the Avis car rental brand, said yesterday that it had agreed to buy the largest independent time-share operator, Fairfield Communities, for $728.5 million.
