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Hostetter joins Insight buy.(Insight Communications Company Inc. acquisition )

Multichannel News, November, 2005 by Farrell, Mike

Insight Communications Inc. has set a date for shareholders to vote on the proposed transaction to take the operator private and said a new equity partner is in the deal: former cable mogul Amos Hostetter.

In a securities filing on Dec. 17, Insight said the shareholder meeting will take place on Dec. 16 at 9: 30 a.m. at The Michelangelo Hotel in New York.

In March, the company's co-founders, chairman Sidney Knafel, CEO Michael Willner and private equity firm The Carlyle Group, proposed buying the 86% of Insight stock they didn't already own for about $718 million in cash, or $11.75 per share. Insight's board of directors has approved the deal.

The proxy statement filed last week said Knafel, Willner and Carlyle will contribute about...

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