Optimum
Cablevision Systems Corporation is a leading telecommunications, media and entertainment company with a portfolio of operations that includes a full suite of advanced digital television, voice and high-speed Internet services, valuable local media and programming properties, and some of the country's most-watched national television networks.
Founded in 1973 as a cable television operator with 1,500 Long Island customers, Cablevision today operates the nation's single largest cable cluster, passing more than 5 million households and businesses in the New York metropolitan area with its state-of-the-art fiber-rich network. This world-class system connects residential and business customers in the country's top market to Cablevision's Optimum®-branded communications services: Optimum TV® digital television, Optimum Voice® digital voice, Optimum Online® high-speed Internet and Optimum WiFi®, the nation's largest wireless Internet network. In addition, Cablevision's Optimum Lightpath® division meets the communications needs of larger companies as a leading provider of integrated business communications solutions.
Also catering to the New York market are the company's media and programming properties that deliver content created specifically for the communities Cablevision serves. These include Optimum TV exclusives News 12 Networks, an award-winning, local news leader, and MSG Varsity, a suite of television and online services covering high school sports and activities throughout the tri-state area. Providing additional compelling local content is Newsday Media Group, which consists of Long Island's leading daily newspaper, Newsday, and the popular web site Newsday.com, as well as amNewYork, the nation's most widely circulated free daily serving New York City, and Star Community Publishing, the Northeast's largest group of weekly shopper publications.
