As Bright House is by far the largest cable provider in central Florida, this left most of the Orlando area without most Orlando Magic games. This dated back to when the central Florida cable franchise was held by Cablevision, and then Time Warner Cable. From its inception in 2003, Bright House Networks's systems in central Florida, including Orlando, refused to carry Fox Sports Florida.Thus, Bright House Networks customers were affected whenever there were carriage disputes between TWC and a content provider, which has happened several times. When Bright House Networks was separate from Time Warner Cable, most of its carriage deals were still negotiated on its behalf by Time Warner Cable. They formerly served as title sponsor of the Futures Tour Bright House Networks Open golf tournament, held in Lakeland, Florida. Most of its former business was concentrated in Central Florida.īright House Networks held the naming rights to UCF's Bright House Networks Stadium (now FBC Mortgage Stadium) in Orlando, Florida Bright House Field (now Ba圜are Ballpark) in Clearwater, Florida, the spring training home of the Phillies and the Bright House Networks Amphitheatre (now Spectrum Amphitheatre) in Bakersfield, California. The company provided service to areas including Indianapolis, Central Florida ( Orlando / Daytona Beach areas), Tampa/ Lakeland area, Birmingham–Hoover area, west suburban Detroit, and Bakersfield.
Spectrum plans to withdraw Bright House's automation and security services in February 2020. As a result of the deal, the Bright House and Time Warner Cable brands will be phased out and eliminated completely, with both services amalgamated under Charter's Spectrum brand over the coming months. On April 25, 2016, regulators approved both mergers Advance/Newhouse gained a stake of roughly 14 percent in the combined company.
On May 26, 2015, after Comcast had abandoned its plans to buy Time Warner Cable, Charter announced its own plans to merge with TWC, as well as a renegotiated arrangement for the purchase of Bright House. On March 31, 2015, Charter Communications announced it would acquire Bright House in a $10.4 billion deal, contingent on Time Warner Cable waiving its right of first refusal to acquire the latter company, which was not expected to be exercised given the then-pending Comcast–Time Warner Cable merger. Bright House Networks had an extensive fiber optic network in the Florida area and used it to provide commercial services including dedicated Internet access, VPN services, and private network transport as well as telecom facilities such as SIP trunking and PRI service. In addition, Bright House Networks operated two regional local news channels – Bay News 9 in the Tampa Bay market, and News 13 in the Orlando market. Bright House Networks offers video, high-speed data, home security and automation and voice services. Under a deal struck in 2003, Advance/Newhouse took direct management and operational responsibility for a portion of the partnership cable systems roughly equal to their equity. Bright House Networks, LLC was formerly known as TWEAN Subsidiary, LLC and changed its name to Bright House Networks, LLC on April 1, 2003. In Florida, Bright House succeeded Time Warner Cable's Tampa Bay and Orlando systems.Īll of the systems that eventually came to be owned by Bright House Networks were previously owned by the Time Warner Entertainment–Advance/Newhouse Partnership. In other areas, Bright House Networks was the successor to TelePrompTer Cable TV, Group W Cable, Strategic Cable, Paragon Cable and Shaw Communications. Prior to 1994, some of the systems were fully owned by Advance Publications under the names Vision Cable and Cable Vision (no relation to Cablevision in the New York City metro area).
īright House Networks also owned and operated two 24-hour local news operations Central Florida News 13 serving the Orlando area, and Bay News 9 serving the Tampa Bay area. īright House Networks' primary service offerings included digital television, high-speed internet, home security and automation and voice services. The company served more than 2.2 million customers. Prior to its purchase by Charter Communications, it was the tenth-largest multichannel video service provider and the 6th largest cable internet provider (based on coverage) in the United States. Bright House Networks, LLC also simply known as Bright House, was an American telecom company.
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