What Happened?
Bethpage, NY-based Cablevision Appointed Keith Sherwell as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Cablevision Systems Corporation is a leading telecommunications and media company with a portfolio of operations that includes a full suite of advanced digital television, voice and high-speed Internet services and valuable local media and programming properties. Founded in 1973 as a cable television operator with 1,500 Long Island customers, Cablevision today offers television, phone and Internet services to millions of households and businesses in the New York metropolitan area. Cablevision`s popular Optimum®-branded communications services include Optimum TV® digital cable TV digital cable TV, Optimum Voice® home phone and Optimum Online® high-speed Internet. In the New York tri-state area, Cablevision`s telecommunications properties also consist of Optimum WiFi®, the nation`s largest wireless Internet network, and Lightpath®, a leading provider of integrated business communications solutions that meets the needs of larger companies. Through its local media and programming properties, Cablevision delivers news and information created specifically for the tri-state-area communities it serves. This includes Optimum TV`s exclusive News 12 Networks, an award-winning, local news leader. Providing additional compelling local content is Newsday Media Group, which includes Long Island`s leading daily newspaper, Newsday, and its popular Web site Newsday.com; as well as amNewYork, the nation`s most widely circulated free daily serving New York City; and Long Island`s largest publisher of weekly shoppers and community papers. Cablevision`s rich history includes the creation, ownership and operation of Rainbow Media Holdings and its popular television networks from 1980 until June 2011, when it became a separate, public company named AMC Networks Inc. In addition, Cablevision was owner and operator of Madison Square Garden and its properties from 1997 until February 2010, when the sports and entertainment leader became a separate, public company now called The Madison Square Garden Company.
About the Person
Keith Sherwell has been the Chief Information Officer of International Division at Office Depot, Inc. since September 2014 and oversees integration with OfficeMax in Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America (M). Keith Sherwell served as the Chief Information Officer of Sears Holding.
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