Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable Timeline

1968	American Television and Communications (ATC) is founded in Denver, CO when 16 cable companies are joined into one providing cable service to approximately 70,000 customers in 14 states.
1969	ATC goes public with approximately 100,000 subscribers.
1973	Warner Communications enters the cable business and forms Warner Cable with systems in Ohio and Virginia. Time Inc. acquires 15% of ATC in exchange for cable systems serving approximately 60,000 subscribers.
1977	Warner Cable launches the first interactive television programming with its QUBE system in Columbus, OH.
1978	Time Inc. acquires the rest of ATC (85%). ATC passes the 750,000 subscriber mark.
1979	Warner Communications enters into a joint venture with American Express to form Warner Amex.
1981	ATC’s National Training Center, the first of its kind in the industry, opens in Denver.
1985	American Express opts out of the Warner Amex joint venture and Warner purchases American Express's share of the venture.
1986	ATC becomes a publicly owned company as Time Inc. offers shares in the cable subsidiary to investors.
1988	ATC moves its corporate headquarters to Stamford, CT.
1989	Time Warner Inc. is formed with the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications. Time Warner New York City Cable Group is formed to manage the new company’s cable operations in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn.
1991	Quantum, the world’s first 150-channel television system, is introduced in Queens, N.Y.
1992	Time Warner Inc. buys out shareholders of ATC. Warner Cable closes its Columbus, Ohio headquarters and consolidates with ATC in Stamford, CT to form Time Warner Cable. Time Warner Cable’s flagship news channel, NY1, is launched.
1994	The Full Service Network debuts in Orlando, Florida. Time Warner Cable becomes the first cable company to be honored with an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Technological Development.
1995	1995 TWC introduces the On-Time Guarantee customer service program.
1996	Time Warner Cable launches Road Runner High Speed Data, one of the fastest ways to get online. Up to twice as fast as DSL in most areas and up to 70 times faster than traditional dial-up service, Road Runner enables customers to connect to the Internet directly through their existing cable lines.
1998	Time Warner Cable agrees to carry CBS' high-definition (HD) and digital signals. This landmark decision was "…akin to the Boston Tea Party, a galvanizing event that brought the seeds of revolution home to the masses." (Cableworld, April 2004)
1999	Time Warner Cable launches HBO in HD, becoming the first in the industry to offer all of the great high definition movies and TV shows carried by the premium channel.
2000	Movies On Demand launches in Hawaii, Tampa, FL and Austin, TX. Customers can order new releases, hits and favorite classics any time plus instantly control what they watch by using their digital remote to pause, fast-forward and rewind movies. It is in all divisions by 2002.
2000 2001 2002	Time Warner Cable wins "Best DTV Cable System" for three consecutive years from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Academy of Digital Television Pioneers. The award recognizes the industry leader for "…doing the most to market and promote HDTV through its distribution of HDTV programming."
2001	Time Warner Cable completes its $5 billion nationwide system upgrade creating a hybrid fiber coaxial cable network. HBO On Demand launches in Columbia, SC, Cincinnati, OH and Austin, TX giving premium customers unlimited access to the best of that channel on their own schedule.
2002	Movies On Demand is offered across the entire Time Warner Cable footprint. Digital Video Recorder (DVR) launches and becomes available in all divisions except Houston, TX by the following year. DVR enables customers to conveniently record up to 40 hours of their favorite programs without a VCR, at the touch of a button.
2003	Time Warner Cable becomes the first in the industry to launch HD-DVR, enabling customers to find, record and replay their favorite HD shows, sports and movies automatically, without a VCR or videotapes. Time Warner Cable launches its home phone service, Digital Phone, in Portland, Maine.
2004	Time Warner Cable launches Multi-Room DVR (MR-DVR), offering the whole family a chance to enjoy DVR recordings on any TV in their house connected to it. With MR-DVR, up to four TVs can play the same (or different) recorded shows at the same time, so customers can watch what they want when they want - and where they want. Time Warner Cable provides Digital Phone service in all of its markets.
2004	Time Warner Cable is honored as Cable Operator of the Year, a prestigious award recognizing the company's leadership in technological advancements, marketing, diversity in hiring practices and corporate citizenship. (Multichannel News, the cable industry's book-of-record.)
2005	Time Warner Cable Digital Phone began 2005 with over 240,000 customers. By May there were over 500,000 Digital Phone customers. The company also launched Switched Digital Video, Caller ID on TV, eBay on TV, Start Over and conducted an IPTV trial.
2006	As a result of the July 31, 2006 closing of the acquisition of certain assets from Adelphia and related transactions, Time Warner Cable gained systems with approximately 3.2 million basic video subscribers.
2006	Time Warner Cable launches Quick Clips, PhotoShow TV on Demand as well as Active Advertising, Movie Trailers on Demand and DriverTV.
2007	Time Warner Cable becomes a public company.