{"id":956,"date":"2005-01-19T08:46:49","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T08:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=956"},"modified":"2005-01-19T08:46:49","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T08:46:49","slug":"charter_cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=956","title":{"rendered":"Charter Cable&#8217;s CEO resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:3_DrNItk-4QJ:static.howstuffworks.com\/gif\/cable-tv-ch.jpg\"><br \/>\nLocal Cable Monopoly Charter Communication&#8217;s CEO Carl Vogel <a href=\"http:\/\/yahoo.reuters.com\/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?duid=mtfh71980_2005-01-18_22-43-45_n18181700_newsml\">resigned<\/a> yesterday amid a decline in subscribers and an accounting probe.  Charter&#8217;s stock closed yesterday at <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=chtr\">$1.92\/share<\/a>, a 52 week low.<br \/>\nI think the cable folks have pushed the envelope with respect to pricing and &#8220;product&#8221;.   I can&#8217;t imagine much growth is left in that business.  The action is certainly shifting to the internet.   Former Microsoft exec Paul Allen is Chairman of Charter.   Allen went on a cable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emailthis.clickability.com\/et\/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&#038;etMailToID=1046218901\">acquisition<\/a> spree years ago, which loaded up charter with $19billion in debt (quite a bit, even for a billionaire).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Cable Monopoly Charter Communication&#8217;s CEO Carl Vogel resigned yesterday amid a decline in subscribers and an accounting probe. Charter&#8217;s stock closed yesterday at $1.92\/share, a 52 week low. I think the cable folks have pushed the envelope with respect to pricing and &#8220;product&#8221;. I can&#8217;t imagine much growth is left in that business. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}