All about Bright House network

Bright House Networks is the seventh largest cable (video) operator in the United States, owned by Advance/Newhouse and located in Syracuse, New York.

History of Bright House Networks

Overview
The company provides service to cities around the United States, but most of its business is concentrated in Central Florida, where Bright House is the dominant cable system in the Tampa and Orlando TV markets. Bright House Networks is one of the major cable operators in the United States, with most of its business concentrated in Central Florida, where Bright House is the dominant cable system. Until 1994, some of the systems were fully owned by Advance/Newhouse under the names Vision Cable and Cable Vision, but in other areas, Bright House took over for Teleprompter Cable TV, Group W Cable, Strategic Cable, Paragon Cable and the Tampa Bay / Orlando Time Warner Cable systems in Florida. All of the systems now owned by Bright House were once owned by the Time Warner Entertainment - Advance/Newhouse Partnership but, under a deal struck in 2003, Advance/Newhouse took direct management and operational responsibility for a portion of the partnership cable systems. This was presumably due to Advance/Newhouse's dissatisfaction with Time Warner Cable's strategic direction. Today, Bright House Networks offers TV Service (analogue, digital and HD), high speed Internet, wireless home networking, and digital phone in most areas. Bright House in Florida operates two local news channels - Bay News 9 in the Tampa Bay market, and Central Florida News 13 in the Orlando market.

Carriage controversies

Controversies
All Brighthouse Networks controversies primarily involve Time Warner Cable, as they also handle negotiations on behalf of Bright House. The most notable controversy took place on December 31, 2008, at which point Time Warner Cable and Viacom's MTV Networks had not come to any agreement to renew any Viacom channel beyond the end of that year. This meant that Time Warner and Bright House Networks would have lost all 19 Viacom channels (including Comedy Central and Nickelodeon) starting on January 1, 2009. Final word
This major blackout was narrowly avoided when a zero-hour deal was reached shortly after 12 Midnight ET on January 1, 2009.