From Cabledatacomnews.com just posted:
Cablevision Sells Voom to EchoStar for $200 Million
"Under pressure from Wall Street, Cablevision Systems is selling its financially bleeding Voom satellite television service to EchoStar Communications for $200 million. The Voom saga has been a broadband edition of Family Feud. Cablevision Chairman Chuck Dolan wanted to keep Voom, while his son CEO James Dolan backed a board plan to dump the business, which lost over $75 million in the third quarter alone. The HDTV-oriented satellite service counted only 26,000 customers at the end of September 2004."
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Cablevision Sells Voom to EchoStar for $200 Million
"Under pressure from Wall Street, Cablevision Systems is selling its financially bleeding Voom satellite television service to EchoStar Communications for $200 million. The Voom saga has been a broadband edition of Family Feud. Cablevision Chairman Chuck Dolan wanted to keep Voom, while his son CEO James Dolan backed a board plan to dump the business, which lost over $75 million in the third quarter alone. The HDTV-oriented satellite service counted only 26,000 customers at the end of September 2004."
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