Cablevision considered the idea of spinning off networks like AMC and Sundance Channel five years ago as part of a more sweeping proposal for the company.
S3 To Spin Off Network Appliance Biz.
They join Agents of SHIELD and the forthcoming Agent Carter TV series on the ABC network, which spin off from the central Avengers characters – all part of a Marvel masterplan which will see numerous films and shows over the next 15 years.
C-SPAN2, the first of the C-SPAN spin-off networks, provides uninterrupted live coverage of the United States Senate.
The FTSE 100 giant set out its vision for the future at a conference in the City, as it fights back against threats to split the group up by spinning off its network operator Openreach.
"If GE hired investment bankers and were interested in spinning off the network, we would be interested in receiving one of those books [prospectus]," Karmazin said at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's Cable 2001 conference.
European regulators have ordered R.B.S. to spin off the network by the end of 2017 as a condition of its bailout.
As the world's fastest growing mobile-phone market, India has attracted international players like Japan's NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone from the U.K. Increasing competition has spurred a number of service providers like Aircel to either sell or spin off their network assets to reduce costs.
Lucent, based in Murray Hill, N.J., plans to spin off the enterprise networks group, which assembles telephone systems and data networks for businesses, in September.
The first they could have coped with: the European Commission forced them to spin off their transmission networks.
Correction: August 14, 2000, Monday A report in the Company News column of Business Day on Friday about a plan by Lucent Technologies to spin off its enterprise networks group as a separate company to be called Avaya misstated the size of the unit's work force.
