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Time Warner
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.
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.
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.
2000-2002 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.
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