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What Would Cablevision Sell Off?
- The Wall Street Journal, Wednesday, August 6, 2008 9:15 AM
After multiple attempts to take Cablevision private, the Dolan family is thinking about breaking off a piece instead. Which assets might be cut loose?
The most-discussed candidate is
Rainbow Media, which owns IFC, AMC and the recently acquired Sundance Channel. Media stocks have done poorly in the last year, but the recent acclaim of AMC's "Mad Men" has brought a big dose of
cachet.
Other options are spinning off Madison Square Garden and selling the Cablevision cable assets to Time Warner or Comcast.
