Cable operators getting in tune.

Multichannel News, January, 2006 by Donohue, Steve

Dozens of cable operators--from top-ranked Comcast Corp. to small, privately held firms such as York, Pa.-based Susquehanna Communications--are beginning to face the music: if they don't offer customers Internet song services, they'll lose their attention to those who will, such as Apple Computer Inc.

and its iTunes Music Store. "All of the operators will have one form or another of a music service," said Synacor Inc. CEO Ron Frankel, whose company builds Web portals for cable distributors and supplies music content from MusicNet, a New Yorkbased vendor owned by private-equity firm Baker Capital. Two of Synacor's customers, Charter Communications Inc. and Susquehanna Communications Inc., began marketing services this month that allow subscribers to...

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