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Shares in Charter Communications jumped more than 7 percent Monday after  The Wall Street Journal  reported that Liberty Media may buy a 25 percent stake in the cable MSO.

Cablevision management will likely attempt to sell the company within the next 18 months, Citigroup analyst Jason Bazinet said in a research note Friday.

It's not often that you get to see a regulator interact casually with cable executives, as FCC commissioner Ajit Pai did on Wednesday during an appearance at the American Cable Association Summit. But ACA and its members take a much more personal approach to lobbying Congress and the FCC on key issues like retransmission consent, compared to major cable operators like Comcast.

American Cable Association President & CEO Matt Polka says that he expects some of his member cable companies will exit the pay TV business, and focus on selling broadband Internet access to subscribers turning to Internet video for home entertainment. In an interview with FierceCable , Polka details ACA's views on issues like usage-based broadband, lobbying efforts, and its unique partnership with Time Warner Cable and DirecTV, Verizon and other cable rivals pushing for retransmission-consent reform.

Cablevision may be developing a high-end customer service program called THE O TEAM, according to a trademark application it filed last week.

Two years after dropping ESPN 3D from its programming lineup, AT&T says it plans to add the channel to its U-verse TV service.