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PORTSMOUTH - Federal prosecutors are recommending a 41-month prison sentence for a man who robbed the same Portsmouth bank twice within five days last fall then set off for Las Vegas to gamble some of the $6,000 he had taken.
Timothy Burke is expected to appear before a federal judge on Nov. 27, when lawyers will argue how much time he should serve for robbing the People's United Bank in Portsmouth.
Prosecutors are trying to stave off an effort by Burke, 30, of Portsmouth to have his potential sentence reduced so he can receive treatment for his drug addiction.
A pre-sentence report recommended that Burke serve a 51-to-63 month sentence for the pair of robberies. The report prepared by probation officials is being disputed by Burke, who claims his actions did not pose a "threat of death" - an aggravating factor that can increase a sentence.
The robberies happened Oct. 29 and Nov. 4, 2011. Burke entered the Islington Street bank passing notes to a teller.
Days later, he went to Las Vegas and gambled some of his ill-gotten funds before realizing there was a warrant out for his arrest, according to police. He then returned to New Hampshire and turned himself in.
"His criminal record is driven by his dependency," defense lawyer Mark Sisti said in a court motion. Sisti argued to the court in October that Burke should not receive an enhancement to his sentence because of past convictions. Burke's criminal history is made up largely of misdemeanor drug offenses dating back more than a decade, Sisti said. Burke was arrested just before the pair of bank robberies on Oct. 16 on charges of possessing heroin and marijuana. He was indicted in April on felony drug charges in Rockingham County Superior Court, but the case was later dropped following the bank robbery case, according to Sisti.
Burke pleaded guilty to the two robberies in federal court on June 8.
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Insurance regulators outside of DIFC aren't doing enough, says Gertsch, adding that overcapacity in the industry won't be resolved until the existence of companies come under threat.
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Q: There have been concerns of overcapacity in the industry. What's your take on it?
There is over capacity in this market. Normally this would not be an issue but in the region the only thing that counts is growth and not necessarily profit.
Pricing is deteriorating while underlying deductibles are reducing and loss ratios are going up. If pricing is going down and loss ratios are going up we will get to a point where it is not economical any more. This is what a lot of people don't actually realise right now. The insurance companies can still do this because the reinsurance companies allow it but if you look at the actual margin that a reinsurer has on any treaty in this region particularly in the UAE, it is so tiny that if you add the management expenses that a reinsurance company has on top of that its not profitable anymore. Insurers and reinsurers need to work together because losses will come in the future.
Q: So, how can this be rectified?
Unfortunately, I think that nothing will change until some companies are badly hurt. Currently some companies are releasing reserves to pay dividends. This can't go on as the shareholders will at some point ask what is happening to the capital that they are investing. Our industry will only change when there is a major crisis. We are in a crisis but it's not life threatening right now. In the next 12 to 24 months, we will see reinsurers pulling out because the margin is not there anymore and then it will be really difficult for local insurance companies to continue focusing on growth targets.
Q: What makes Gulf Re different from the other reinsurers?
The difference between us and other companies is that we are not working anywhere else in the world. Gulf Re only focuses on the six GGC states, half of our shareholders are the six GCC states. We focus on this region so for us continuity is very, very important. We are growing slower than the market and we do this deliberately because we see the environment that we are in we don't think it's the right time to grow aggressively. The only reason we can do this is because our shareholders are completely on board, they are not looking for a massive growth right now. It's also the way we have staffed the company, we have brought specialists in from large international reinsurance companies from all over the world. They have the international mind set which is also why we are still declining the vast majority of the business as we believe it will save us a lot of money in the long run.
Q: There have been reports that growth is set to increase in the next 12 to 24 months. How is this possible?
What everyone is trying is to do is write more business or bigger lines in order to keep the volume up. But if prices are coming down by 10 – 15 per cent and you want to keep the volume you have to write a lot more business. If you take medical out of the equation, the market is growing by under 10 per cent per year. If you look at the projections individual companies have, everyone projects to grow more than 10 per cent or 15 per cent so you have a disconnect between what the companies want to do and what the market really gives. In a situation like this you have to steal someone else's business. To do this you have to reduce rates and it becomes a vicious cycle.
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I would like to welcome everyone to the Cablevision third quarter earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions) I will now turn it over to your host, Pat Armstrong, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations.
Pat Armstrong
Good morning and welcome to Cablevision's third quarter 2007 earnings conference call. Joining us this morning are members of the Cablevision executive team, including Jim Dolan, our President and CEO; Hank Ratner, Vice Chairman; Tom Rutledge, Chief Operating Officer; Mike Huseby, Chief Financial Officer; Josh Sapan, President and CEO of Rainbow Media; and John Bickham, President of Cable and Communications. Following a discussion of the company's third quarter 2007 results, we will open the call for questions.
If you do not have a copy of today's earnings release you may obtain one from our website, Cablevision.com. This call can also be accessed via our website.
We look forward to your questions. I would like to emphasize that our focus today is on Cablevision's operating and financial results for the third quarter of 2007. In that regard, we will not be addressing any questions regarding the recent Dolan Family Group going private offer during this call.
Please take note of the following: this discussion of Cablevision's results and any discussion of the company's 2007 outlook may contain statements that constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and results, and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ.
Please refer to the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a discussion of risks and uncertainties. The company disclaims any obligation to update the forward-looking statements that may be discussed during this call.
Let me point out that on page 6 of today's earnings release we provide consolidated operations data and a reconciliation of adjusted operating cash flow, or AOCF, to operating income.
I will now turn the call over to Cablevision's President and CEO, Jim Dolan.
Jim Dolan
Thank you, Pat and good morning. As you all know, as a result of last month's shareholder vote, Cablevision will continue as a public company. We view this outcome as an affirmation of confidence from our shareholders and our company and its prospects going forward. We look forward to continuing to serve our customers and to building on Cablevision success.
Turning now to third quarter results, Cablevision's consolidated revenue grew more than 9% to $1.5 billion as compared with the prior year period. This was driven by strong revenue growth in both our cable operations and at Rainbow Media. All three businesses -- cable, Rainbow and MSG -- helped to increase consolidated AOCF by 16% to $494 million.
Despite a relatively small third quarter loss in basic video subscribers, our digital video, data and voice services continued to gain market share. This ongoing demand helped to maintain Cablevision's industry-leading penetration rates.
Rainbow Media had an impressive third quarter due to substantial increases in both advertising and affiliate revenue. Our programming business achieved a 17% increase in revenue and a strong AOCF growth of 42%, as compared with the prior year period. While MSG's revenue was essentially flat compared to last year's third quarter, AOCF increased substantially to $10 million. This was primarily due to team personnel changes incurred in 2006.
I would now like to turn over the call to our Chief Operating Officer Tom Rutledge, who will discuss the results of our telecommunications segment.
Tom Rutledge
Thank you, Jim and good morning. Overall, our core cable business continued to produce solid results in the third quarter of 2007. The company gained approximately 161,000 RGUs in the quarter, contributing to cable revenue growth of 9.7% and AOCF growth of 8.5% compared to the prior-year period.
Our average monthly revenue per subscriber was $120.91 for the third quarter, slightly less than our second quarter RPS which had the impact of a popular pay-per-view fight included. This quarter's RPS represents an 8.8% increase over the prior-year period.
Consumer demand continues to drive the expansion of our two product and three product offers, along with VOD and DVR. Today, almost half our customer base subscribes to all three of our primary products: video, high-speed data and voice. We've seen consistently higher retention rates with three product customers compared with customers who do not have all three products.
Cable capital spending totaled $186 million for the third quarter. While on a quarterly running rate basis this is an anomaly, we still expect our full-year capital spending to be within the targets we had previously set for the full year.
Consistent with recent quarters, consumer premises equipment represented the largest component of capital expenditures as we continue to support RGU growth and deploy more and more DVRs and HD boxes. Year-to-date, we spent $470 million in capital, a reduction of 26% from last year's comparable period.
Now let me briefly address Telco competitive activity in our footprint in the last quarter. We estimate that Verizon has built out a plan that passes approximately 1.1 million homes as of September 30. Of this total, they have approval to offer video services to about 890,000 of these homes.
Turning to specific results of for video services we ended the third quarter with 3.12 million basic video customers, reflecting a loss of approximately 16,000 customers in the quarter. As a reminder, our third quarter is typically not our strongest growth quarter due to seasonal discount in our beach communities, especially on Long Island and New Jersey. Year-to-date basic subscribers were essentially flat, down by less than 5,000. Our basic penetration at the end of the quarter was 67.2%.
Our digital video service, iO, added 35,000 customers for the quarter. We have now reached almost 83% digital video penetration which enhances our ability to offer more digital products to our customers. For example, this past quarter we launched our tenth language category with the addition of our first French language network. This brings our international network offerings to more than 60 channels.
Our high-definition video subscribers totaled 898,000 at the end of the quarter, an increase of 71% over the past year, reflecting ongoing strong demand for our HD product. We continue to make our HD offering more attractive. In addition to recently adding the 15 VOOM HD channels, CNN and TBS are now offered in HD, all at no extra charge to our customers. Today Cablevision provides 42 HD programming services to our HD customer base, and we expect to add more HD channels in the coming months on our 500 channel capable platform.
Turning to Optimum Online, our high-speed data service, we had a net gain of 52,000 customers in the quarter. Our a penetration of homes passed at the end of September reached 48%. Now our Optimum Online basic video customer base is 71%.
Our Optimum Voice service had a quarterly subscriber gain of 91,000. Optimum Voice is now the phone service of choice in almost one of every three homes passed, and today two out of three Optimum Online customers take Optimum Voice as well. If these trends continue, the majority of our customers will be buying their landline voice from us by the end of this year.
The success of Optimum Voice continues to drive growth all across Cablevision services. Today more than 60% of new sales include the full suite of Optimum video, data and voice services.
On the business front, Optimum Lightpath Ethernet-based business continues to generate impressive growth, adding customers and new buildings at a steady pace. As a result, Ethernet revenue for the third quarter increased 90% compared to last year.
Today we are providing the following updated 2007 outlook for cable television as follows: basic video subscriber growth to be flat; RGU additions of approximately 800,000; revenue growth of approximately 11%; AOCF growth of approximately 9%; capital spending in the range of [inaudible] to $650 million. Once again we expect capital spending to be closer to the lower end of that range.
I would now like to turn the call over to Josh Sapan who will discuss Rainbow's results.
Josh Sapan
Thank you, Tom. For the third quarter revenue at our national programming networks AMC, WE TV and IFC increased 13.8% to $164.4 million and AOCF for the quarter was $77.9 million, an increase of 12.3% as compared to the prior year. This quarterly revenue growth includes a 22% increase in advertising revenue driven by higher CPMs (cost per thousands) and units sold at AMC and WE TV, as well as higher sponsorship revenue at IFC and a 9% increase in affiliate revenue compared to the prior-year period. The increase in AOCF was primarily driven by this higher revenue, partially offset by higher contractual rights expense and marketing costs versus the third quarter of 2006.
Once again, it is expected that full year spending driven primarily by programming and marketing expenses will be equal to or greater than prior years as we continue our strategy of investing in high quality original programming to drive viewership.
AMC enjoyed a successful summer with the first full season of a series called Mad Men, a popular series set in the 1960s. The series gathered impressive critical acclaim, had good ratings, and we have commissioned a second season which is scheduled for next summer. Additionally, third quarter 2007 was WE TV's best quarter ever for primetime audience delivery.
Turning now to Rainbow's other programming businesses, which primarily include News 12, the VOOM HD Networks, Fuse, IFC Entertainment and our VOD services LIFESKOOL and SPORTSKOOL. Third quarter net revenue for those other programming businesses increased 24% to $63 million and the AOCF deficit improved by 21% to a loss of $26 million as compared with the same quarter last year.
The increase in net revenue is primarily driven by higher revenue at the VOOM HD Networks, impacted by growth from the existing affiliate sub base, as well as the addition of Cablevision subscribers. This favorable revenue impact fueled improvement in AOCF, partially offset by increased programming acquisition costs.
I would now like to turn it over to Hank Ratner who will discuss the results of Madison Square Garden.
Hank Ratner
Thanks, Josh. Turning to MSG's operating results, third quarter revenue was essentially flat when compared to the third quarter of 2006. AOCF for the quarter was $10 million, compared to an AOCF loss of $6 million in last year's third quarter. Third quarter results were principally driven by higher MSG Network revenue and AOCF, including a $6.2 million increase in affiliate revenue, which more than offset a $1.3 million reduction in other revenue, primarily ad sales, and a higher operating cost of $2.2 million.
Higher AOCF from the Knicks and Rangers, primarily relating to the provision for certain team personnel transactions taken in 2006 which totaled $33 million. Higher venue operating costs of $3.2 million relating primarily to the addition of the Beacon Theatre.
Turning to our sports teams, both the Knicks and Rangers began their respective seasons with deeper and more talented rosters that energized fan bases and heightened expectations for success. For the 2007/2008 season Knicks subscribers expressed their enthusiasm and excitement for this young team with a 91% renewal rate, the highest number since 2001.
Higher expectations for the Rangers resulted in all remaining 2007/2008 individual game tickets selling out in less than one hour. This was after a 97% season subscriber renewal rate, which is believed to be the fastest season sellout in our team's history.
This month marks the beginning of our two holiday shows. On November 1 the world renowned Cirque du Soleil debuted the widely anticipated production of Wintuk, which will make the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden its home over the next four winters. November 9 marks the start of the 75th celebration of the perennial holiday favorite, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, featuring an enhanced production with new sets, costumes and the show-stopping Rockettes numbers.
In October, Madison Square Garden added the legendary Chicago Theater to our lineup of world-class venues. While we expect to make a more detailed announcement soon, this addition expands the reach of Madison Square Garden beyond New York and further differentiates our unrivaled collection of assets in the entertainment industry.
I would now like to turn the call over to Mike Huseby who will briefly cover the company's overall financial position.
Mike Huseby
Thank you, Hank. With respect to leverage and liquidity, the company's consolidated cash position at the end of the third quarter was $808 million and net debt was $10.5 billion. At September 30, CSC Holdings $1 billion revolving credit facility was undrawn except for $56 million restricted for outstanding letters of credit. As of September 30, the company's consolidated leverage ratio was 5.1 times. The CSC Holdings restricted group leverage ratio was 4.9 times.
At Rainbow National Services, on August 31 we exercised our 35% clawback rights and redeemed $175 million of the RNS 10 3/8% senior subordinated notes. At September 30, RNS had approximately $1.1 billion of debt and its full $300 million revolving credit facility was undrawn. The ratio under the RNS bond leverage test as of September 30 was 3.5 times.
During the nine months ended September 30, the company generated free cash flow of approximately $74 million compared to a deficit of $10.9 million in the same period a year ago. For the third quarter, free cash flow was a deficit of $20.7 million, principally due to the relatively high level of capital expenditures falling into the third quarter of the year as noted by Tom, and the impact of increased working capital requirements in the quarter.
Total company capital expenditures for the nine months were $554.4 million and compared to $700 million for the same period of 2006, which was a decline of 21%. This decrease was principally due to about $100 million in lower CPE spending for the nine months and the investment we made in early 2006 to enhance our Optimum Online and BOOST offerings.
Operator, we would now like to open the call for questions.
Question-and-Answer Session
Your first question comes from Craig Moffett - Sanford Bernstein.
Craig Moffett - Sanford C. Bernstein
Tom, I wonder if you could talk a little bit more about the capital intensity trends that you are seeing. Exactly what is it that is driving the big reduction from last year? You said it is clearly a lot of it is customer premise equipment. Is that a reduction in capitalized labor? Is that a reduction in unit set-top box cost?
Given the reduction in capital intensity that you are seeing now and looking forward, a question for Jimmy is what do you do with the cash at this point? Do you consider a dividend, do you consider special dividends, and how do you prioritize the options?
Tom Rutledge
Craig, the biggest single driver in the reduction of capital intensity is the fact that our digital penetration is so high; that our need to buy additional set-top boxes is declining. So we've gone through a process of essentially digitizing our entire analog base now at 83%. We have a pretty deep digital penetration per household. So while there is capitalized labor associated with transactions which also is reduced as transactions are reduced, the bulk of the capital intensity reduction comes from less customer premises equipment.
The biggest single cost of customer premises equipment is digital set-top boxes; modems have actually gotten much cheaper and are less significant by a factor of almost 4:1 relative to set-top boxes when it comes to RGU costs. Voice capital on a customer premises basis, almost 13:1 in terms of its reduction in capital cost per RGU gain. So it is a much less capital intensive business going forward.
Craig Moffett - Sanford C. Bernstein
How long do you think that capital intensity can eventually get to, Tom?
Tom Rutledge
Well, it all depends on how fast you are growing your RGU base, obviously. But I don't think modem and phone or voice capital costs significantly less going forward. I think most of the cost reductions are out of it. There is still some capital to be spent on network going forward, particularly in increasing high-speed data speeds. Now we have already spent $15 a passing in '06 to take us up to 30 megabit speeds. Similar kinds of investments may be required in the future, but from a CPE perspective I don't think we will get much in reduction going forward.
Jim Dolan
As far as the use of free cash flow, it is a competition between reduction of debt, reinvestment into the company, growth opportunities. We all look to see what we think will provide the greatest enhancement to shareholder value.
Your next question comes from James Ratcliffe - Lehman Brothers.
James Ratcliffe - Lehman Brothers
Jim, could you give us from a high level your thoughts on the merits of combining distribution and content in a single company? Particularly now that News Corp is divesting its stake in DIRECTV and there is a lot of talk that Time Warner might divest its stake in Time Warner Cable?
Secondly for Tom, for customers who are ending their first promotional year on the triple play bundle, what sort of ARPU changes are you seeing for them? Are you getting them to step up to higher ARPUs or are they staying about where they are? Thank you.
Tom Rutledge
On the step up of revenues after the first year, nothing has changed in regard to that. We have promotional pricing during the first year and the step up is approximately $25. At the end of that period the churn of customers stepping up in the triple play product is lower than churn in general so that continues to be successful marketing tactic which we've been doing for years.
Jim Dolan
As far as having both programming and distribution in the same company, I think there are still quite a few companies out there that have programming distribution together. This company has had those two aspects of the business almost since its inception. We've always seen that the programming business is enhanced by having a connection to the distribution business. (1) to incubate new services, and (2) just to stay close to the customer environment to understand the environment that the customer is watching programming in. I think that has helped the Rainbow programming services and we think that they will continue to do so.
Your next question comes from Rich Greenfield - Pali Capital.
Rich Greenfield - Pali Research
You are at about three times, maybe more than three times the level of triple play penetration than your peers. When you look at the competitive impact, the subs that you're losing to Verizon, how many come from triple play homes? Is it a really small percentage versus your unbundled triple play subscribers?
In the last proxy statement it discussed something like $150 million of CapEx this year at Madison Square Garden and a few hundred million dollars of negative working capital. I just wanted to get a sense of whether that was still in your budget and what that related to or whether that actually has changed in your mind as we look out over the last quarter of the year? Thanks.
Tom Rutledge
Let me address the competitive position. Obviously we've been at the triple play for a number of years now. With a strategy of improving the value proposition for our consumers so that in a more competitive world we would be a more successful company. We've been facing wireline competition for three years now, construction started in '04. If you look at where we've gone from the end of '04 till now, we've added 159,000 video customers, 867,000 data customers and 1.2 million voice customers. Now almost half of our customer base is triple play.
During that period of time, our wireline competitors have been under construction and seeking a national franchising regime which actually slowed down their ability to get franchises. So when you look at activated video passings of our competitor, of the 890,000 passings that our competitor is selling against us in, 800,000 of them have come on in the last 12 months. So the greenfield territory, a different use of the word, that they've had to sell this year is greater than it will ever be and ever was because of their construction pace.
During the last year we've gained 11,000 customers. The reason we've been able to hold our own against that competitive thrust is because of the triple play and the fact that triple play customers disconnect, even in a competitive environment, at much lower rates.
Jim Dolan
With respect to the second question, Rich, on the proxy, we are not going to address anything that was in the proxy as we mentioned. As it relates to MSG's capital requirements in general, the significant ones if any, will be determined by their decision on either the renovation or the move of Farley, and that has been well-publicized and discussed in prior calls and that is still under consideration as to which alternative will happen.
In terms of significant working capital, I will only address that simply because I referred to it earlier in my comments when I talked about third quarter free cash flow, we did have some significant uses of working capital in the third quarter. For examples team personnel charges that Jim referred to, are run through AOCF in one year and paid in another year and some of those came due in the third quarter for 2006. Personnel charges at the Garden.
We had some performance awards divest that people earned over a seven-year period, and those were paid in the third quarter. So working capital is going to vary depending upon what happens in the business, but also on differences between the accruals that take place over many years and when the payments are made.
So I'm not commenting on the proxy, but as it relates to the third quarter those are some examples of what happened this third quarter in terms of the free cash flow. That is one of the reasons we don't forecast free cash flow.
Rich Greenfield - Pali Research
Is there anything in the Beacon Theatre in terms of capital spending or anything within the MSG segment in terms of project CapEx that you are still working on or might be working on other than the major rebuild of the Garden which is several years away?
Jim Dolan
Nothing more that we are willing to discuss at this point. Can we go to the next question?
Your next question comes from Jason Bazinet - Citigroup.
Jason Bazinet - Citigroup
Could you just give us an update on what portion of your footprint is passed by Verizon's fiber? Secondly, how much of that is actually selling the video product today?
Tom Rutledge
Yes, Jason. We've already said that. They passed 1.1 million passings. They are selling for video 890,000 passings. And of that 890,000 passings 800,000 of them became available for sale in the last 12 months, due to the delayed franchising process that they created for themselves through their national policy, which they failed at.
Your next question comes from Doug Mitchelson - Deutsche Bank.
Doug Mitchelson - Deutsche Bank
Jim, you've obviously shown pretty firmly your belief that Cablevision is worth a lot more than where it is currently trading, and so I guess I am curious why one of your uses of capital might not be to do the share repurchase program? Even just give yourself the flexibility to buy stock when you do think it is attractive, sort of a rolling LBO concept is one way to think about it.
Tom, you've been marketing small-medium business enterprise now for five months or so. Can you walk us through how that business is tracking and what contribution it might have to revenue and EBITDA growth next year? Thanks.
Jim Dolan
I think I will go first on this one. I'm not quite sure whether that was a suggestion or a question, but the share repurchase is certainly within the scope of returning value to shareholders.
Tom Rutledge
With regard to your question on enterprise, we haven't given guidance for next year on how we think that will do, nor have we broken that out. But we have sized the marketplace for you in previous discussions and there are about 650,000 businesses inside of our serviceable footprint. They spend approximately, before we started marketing our services, about $5.8 billion a year to the incumbent telephone companies. We think that is a big opportunity for us. We are aggressively marketing against it.
This year is the first year that we have ubiquitously offered business class services across our footprint. We continue to expand our product offering. We are now up to 12 lines on the small business universe. We have a full Ethernet product for large enterprises. And we are happy with our performance in the marketplace, but we haven't broken it out.
Doug Mitchelson - Deutsche Bank
Can you at least tell us if the execution has gone as expected and what the major hurdles are to growing that business as rapidly as you would like?
Tom Rutledge
Yes, it is more complicated than the residential business. There are more variations in customers, therefore there are more variations in hardware. The revenue opportunities are obviously bigger per customer. There is a different selling proposition. So we had to build an infrastructure to make it go, and we are very satisfied with our performance and we are on our plan.
Your next question comes from Ingrid Chung - Goldman Sachs.
Ingrid Chung - Goldman Sachs
I was wondering if Tom could comment on the year-over-year uptick in churn? Was this mainly from lower ARPU, unbundled customers? I think you had commented before that people coming off the initial promo offer actually have lower churn. So if you could just comment on that, please.
Tom Rutledge
Churn is up, and there are two elements of it. When we you look at our marketplace we have new wireline competition and when an activation occurs the wireline competitor gets some customers, single-digit. As I said before, obviously this year there is more of that than any prior year and probably any subsequent year, just because of the nature of the way the activations occurred and the approval process occurred. So that has an impact.
That was actually planned for by us in our thinking and in our guidance this year. It has gone in pretty much exactly as we expected it to. The difference this year over what we experienced in prior years has been non-paid churn is up slightly and that is primarily in lower income neighborhoods. We think it is a macroeconomic effect.
We started noticing it in September of last year, and it doesn't appear to be getting any worse after 12 months. So it seems to have flattened out. But there was a definite change in churn outside of the wireline competitive areas that has had a significant impact on our performance relative to last year where there is no wireline competitor.
Ingrid Chung - Goldman Sachs
So that competition is mainly coming from satellite?
Tom Rutledge
No, it is not. Actually I think satellite is losing share in our footprint.
Your next question comes from Benjamin Swinburne - Morgan Stanley.
Benjamin Swinburne - Morgan Stanley
There have been some press reports on a rate increase in the basic tier next year which I think would be the first one in a couple of years. I am just wondering if you could talk about the strategy there as Verizon is clearly adding footprint? I think they've got some pretty aggressive offers in the marketplace today.
Second, along those same lines I think they put out a release that they are going to take their HD lineup to 100 channels plus. Can you give us an update on your use of switch to digital, where you are on that in the footprint right now and where that takes your HD lineup over the next say 12 to 18 months?
Tom Rutledge
Yes, well, with regard to pricing we have been very moderate in our pricing over the last three years. We've been almost all of our growth and all of our revenue growth has been due to additional RGU growth. We did announce a rate increase a little over 4% for next year. Our prices are currently lower than Verizon's. They will continue to be lower than Verizon's absent a change on their part. They raised their rates over 7% last year in the face of the competitive environment, and obviously programming costs on the video side continued to impact the cost structure of the whole industry.
We have lower prices than our competitor, and we will continue to have lower prices and so we are comfortable with our rate structure in the competitive environment.
We now have approximately 70 channels being carried in the switch digital format, almost all of that is ethnic programming. We just tested and proved out to ourselves that HD switch video works. We are prepared to launch additional HD channels as they become available to us. We currently carry more regional HD than any of our competitors, and we have more HD and On Demand HD that our competitors can't replicate.
We think we can carry using switch digital and other technological changes in our infrastructure, like for instance in New York City we went all digital, and we have more spectrum unused than we are currently using. We think that we have the capacity to carry as many HD channels as can be launched.
Your next question comes from Jeff Wlodarczak - Wachovia.
Jeff Wlodarczak - Wachovia Capital
Is there any indication that Verizon is slowing down FiOS passings within your footprint? Where do you all predict they are going to reach by 2010? Can you talk about your FiOS win back efforts and how successful you have been? Thanks.
Tom Rutledge
Well, I am not going to talk about 2010; but we told you in these calls what their passings count is, and if you go back and do the analysis of what we've said, you can see that their construction pace has slowed. With regard to win backs, we find that we can win back customers, and we find that proportionally relative to how we do against satellite we do as well against Verizon.
Your final question comes from Jessica Reif-Cohen - Merrill Lynch.
Jessica Reif-Cohen - Merrill Lynch
On the CapEx, Tom, I am just curious about the CPE it was up $5 million year over year but your RGUs were down quite a bit, net adds were down. So is it just the cost of the HD DVR boxes, and what is that cost?
Could you talk broadly about your wireless strategy, what plans if any you have and would you prefer to partner with other cable operators or go it alone?
Tom Rutledge
Fourth quarter, a lot of HD sets are sold so there is a little bit of CapEx in the third quarter that is anticipated for fourth quarter activity, which is disproportionately high. DVR capital is also included in the CPE CapEx. DVRs are not counted as RGUs for historic reasons ,even though they are revenue generating. That capital is in there; and we don't report our DVR penetration or revenues.
Jessica Reif-Cohen - Merrill Lynch
How much does an HD DVR box cost now?
Tom Rutledge
I will have to get back to you on that. I can't answer that anymore. I don't know exactly; I know what it used to be and I haven't checked it in a while.
Jim Dolan
Jessica, we continue to keep our eye on the wireless business. The cellular business is quite crowded, and it really is somewhat of a commoditized product although it does seem to be like there is an unending market demand for it. We are taking a look at other technologies, such as WiFi and looking at its application. But we are not really ready to commit ourselves at this point.
Jessica Reif-Cohen - Merrill Lynch
How important is it for you to have a mobile service for your customers? For data, voice or video?
John Bickham
I think data much like you saw us do with the voice over IP stuff I think it is important to have a data infrastructure and then you can layer reasonable cost VoIP on top of it. It is the smart thing to do in a commodity business.
Tom Rutledge
We actually have installed some WiFi in some communities, which we have begun announcing, relatively small, customers who already subscribe to our wireline services can get WiFi throughout their communities.
Pat Armstrong
Thank you for joining us this morning. This conference call will be available on Cablevision's website and on StreetEvents.com through November 15th. Have a good day.
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- The Minocqua-Hazelhurst-Lake Tomahawk Elementary School will upgrade its cameras and video system this summer, before students return for the fall start of the school year.
The school will be upgrading its analog system to an digital IP based video system with better video quality. MHLT Director of Technology Jay Christgau says they will help staff see what actually happens during fights or bullying situations. He says that people and faces can be blurry on their current system in certain areas.
The upgrade compares to a shift from standard to high-definition television, and will help when they might not discover a problem the day of an incident.
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Leaders at the school also hope camera upgrades will provide more security, especially after a high school shooting last week in Oregon that ended with a 14-year-old and the shooter dead.
The new system will help police in the area track a person through the school or through the parking lots if needed.
"So it makes it a lot easier to track, if we had a worst case scenario where we needed to track somebody in the building that would be something we could do very easily," Christgau said.
The police dispatch center in the area will also have direct access to the school's camera system.
Christgau says officers will also have access from their squad cars if needed.
"They'll be able to use them for other things, but they'll also be hooked up so that they can go in and review our cameras, watch them live, or go in, go back and review previous data," Christgau said.
The school will use a new system called Milestone. It will give school leaders the ability to access the school's cameras on multiple types of digital devices and has a simpler interface.
"(This program) actually has a map of the school, and then you are able to just on the various camera positions so that the user on the client can just click on those cameras and see that image."
The school will save a substantial amount of money by running the lines and installing the cameras themselves. The board set aside $28,540 for the project. The cameras will be set up in the hallways in the school. Christgau says they don't put cameras inside of bathrooms or classrooms at the school.
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Over 220 students and family members enjoyed Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics themed activities at Spaght's STEM Land on November 18. Twelve stations provided games and experiences related to STEM principles. The event was held in cooperation with Exploration Place.
We made our fundraising goal of $1500 so Mr. Mitchell got slimed!!!
5th Grade students spent the morning whale watching in Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park with Ranger Steve. The trip from Wichita to Alaska was made possible by Spaght's Polycom system with the help of Technology Integration teacher, Sheryl Wenzl. Other virtual field trips are planned throughout the school year giving students the opportunity to communicate and learn from experts all over the world.
Kindergarten students enjoyed a visit from a Wichita Police Department K9 officer. Students listened to a presentation about the training and use of police dogs. Following that, they watched the police dog "work" as it searched the cafeteria to locate a suitcase containing a target item. Afterwards, the kindergartners were able to ask questions.
"Mystery motivators allow the whole school to recognize and celebrate students who follow our guidelines for success. When the guidelines for success are followed, students are able to learn. The environment is safe & orderly, and students are excited to be here!" --Laura Drouhard, Assistant Principal.
Bunnies, Lizards, Snakes, and Tadpoles! OH MY!
If you visit a 2nd grade classroom at Spaght, you might encounter one of these creatures. Animals in the classroom are a great way for students to learn about life cycles and animal behavior. Currently, 2nd graders are learning about how things change over time and are observing the different stages of the tadpole as it changes into a frog.
Spaght 3rd graders helped film an information video for the Sedgwick County Zoo. When finished, the video will be used to provide information for visiting groups' chaperones. Students read their scripts from a teleprompter app on the IPad. After the filming, the students thoroughly enjoyed seeing the animals. Said one student about the giraffes, "They're even taller than Mr. Mitchell!"
Happy S.T.E.M. Career Day!
There's a whole lot of wiggling going on in kindergarten!
Kindergarten students explored how worms burrow, stretch, and shrink through scientific inquiry and communication with peers.
Kindergarten students explored how worms burrow, stretch, and shrink through scientific inquiry and communication with peers.
1st Grade students just completed a 3-part habitat study. First, they explored habitat boxes on loan from the Sedgwick County Zoo.to discover what might be found in different habitats. Next, while on a field trip to the zoo, students enjoyed a presentation and activities to help them learn how animals adapt to their habitat. Finally, after the zoo trip, students collaborated to make habitat displays.
3rd grade team of engineers look on as Exploration Place science educator uses a fan to simulate how their self-made structure might hold up to the force of a tornado.
4th Grade students in the ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) program work together to research and create PowerPoint presentations about U.S. symbols.
2nd Grade Students looking good in the new Spaght lab coats. The lab coats are available for student use during science activities in the classroom.
Preschool Pumpkin Palooza -- A.M. and P.M. Preschoolers enjoyed a trip to a pumpkin patch followed by math and science activities with pumpkins.
Copy and paste the link into your browser to see the Pumpkin Palooza video. https://animoto.com/play/qB1JL8yMN3mQ7l6DmChLrQ
Kindergarten students had an amazing Polycom lesson about Hissing Cockroaches. Polycom is a video conferencing system that lets students interact with people all over the world. Many of our students got up close and personal with the little...err BIG bugs!
5th Grade Research Presentations
After working with other students to research significant inventions such as the light bulb, cameras, televisions, and radios, 5th grade students presented the information to classmates. After each presentation classmates offered positive and corrective feedback regarding content and delivery. It is hard speaking in front of classmates, but students look forward to improving their public speaking skills.
Spaght 3rd Graders were guests at Northeast Magnet High School's Magnet Day on October 15. Students learned about chemical reactions by launching rockets powered by the reaction of baking soda and vinegar, suited up in real firefighter gear, and got to try doing CPR, taking blood pressure, and listening to their heartbeat with a stethoscope. After rotating through these stations and more, students became the jury in a court case with the 3 Bears and Goldilocks. After deliberating, the students found Goldilocks guilty of bad manners! Thank you to the Law and Science Magnets of Northeast High School for a great learning experience!
Copy and paste this link in your browser to see the video. https://animoto.com/play/0p7ta5HuRAHuV5DsM0mmuA
Copy and paste this link in your browser to see the video. https://animoto.com/play/0p7ta5HuRAHuV5DsM0mmuA
Stormy Weather
3rd graders worked together to construct a home that will withstand the stormy Kansas elements. This is just one of the many STEM-related educational opportunities offered at Spaght in cooperation with Exploration Place.
3rd graders worked together to construct a home that will withstand the stormy Kansas elements. This is just one of the many STEM-related educational opportunities offered at Spaght in cooperation with Exploration Place.
Spaght is on the News!
To see the WPS-TV spotlight on Spaght, click on the link below. Or, go to http://wpstv.usd259.org to see all the stories featured in the October 10 issue of WPS-TV Spotlight.
Congratulations to Mrs. Cook's Kindergarten class and Mrs. Baker's 3rd grade class for receiving the Attendance Award. This week Mrs. Cook's class had an average attendance of 95% and Mrs. Baker's class attendance was over 96%! The students were surprised with certificates for free ice cream at Chik-fil-A, pencils, stickers, and a visit from our school mascot, Sam E. Spaght. Be at school everyday! Maybe your class will be next!
4th Grade Bridge Building
National Literacy Day Assembly, September 23 -- We were HAPPY to celebrate National Literacy Month with our special guests Kenya Cox, Marci Hawks, Melody Miller McCray and,Jean Pouncil. Thank you for supporting literacy at Spaght!
Kindergarten student, Keith, ready to unscramble a book title with a little help from our special guests
4th grader, Neya, and special guest, Jean Pouncil
Melody Miller McCray and student
Marci Hawks with 2nd grader, Quintorrion
Kenya Cox and student
Next time you visit Spaght, be on the lookout for
Sam E. Spaght!
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Philips Hue Wi-Fi lightbulbs in Apple stores Oct. 30
Philips announced that Hue, its web-enabled LED smart lighting system, will be exclusively available in Apple Stores Tuesday, Oct. 30. Hue allows a new generation of color-shifting, Wi-Fi-enabled lightbulbs to be controlled wirelessly using an app. An expensive $199 starter pack includes three 50W bulbs that fit in existing light fixtures, plus a bridge for a Wi-Fi router. Each additional individual bulb sells for a staggering $59. Users can set timers, change shades and colors, and save settings so certain "light scenes" can be recalled at any time; the app also enables users to sample colors from their favorite images, and watch as the bulbs match those colors. The bulbs can switch between various white tones and colors — Hue's website claims the bulbs can "recreate any color in the spectrum."
Philips claims Hue is "upgradeable and future-proof" and more features could be available for download in the future. These features could come from other developers; Philips has created an open source platform for the system, available on the Hue website.
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This would be cool to have but the $200 setup price plus $59 a bulb is going to kill this for most people.
It would seem smarter to lower the price and sell more of them.
Posted by Justin D on October 29, 2012 at 12:43 PM (CDT)
Can't find even basic info about this on the Philips web site, like what is the incandescent bulb wattage equivalent for these damn bulbs huh? 40W? 60W? And do they work with dimmers or not?
Sorry, but LED bulbs in general are LOW power and DON'T work with dimmers so not mentioning this anywhere suggests they're maybe 40W given the profile (which vastly limits their usefulness if true) and NOT compatible with dimmers (ditto for any modern house).
Posted by Glenn on October 30, 2012 at 2:31 AM (CDT)
The idea of Hue is alluring to me after all I've enjoyed about the Nest wi-fi learning thermostat, from the app-enabled interfacing to elegant energy-reduction controls. But $250 to control one's furnace efficiently is one thing. It's quite another to pony up thousands of dollars to outfit a home in Hue lighting.
The 28 or so recessed lights in our hearth room-kitchen area alone is enough to remind me this project appears a fail, especially when Philips has made these as 600-lumen devices that don't dim. Most of my fixtures/controls are dimmable and can output around 800-1200 max lumens each.
Posted by Quix on November 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM (CDT)
The Hue is equivalent to a 50W bulb.
They communicate using ZigBee, and you need the ZigBee to Ethernet bridge included in the $199 Starter Pack (connects to your home router).
Posted by Blue Bill on November 2, 2012 at 4:05 PM (CDT)
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Valley in el Mitad del Mundo, Ecaudor. Taken by Daniel Rapoport, Lito Karatsolis-Chanikian, Rain Chan-Kalin
Interpretive image on a haze day.
Fantastic view of Tolmin valley from viewpoint at Kamnca overlooking the beautiful valley of emerald river Soca. We can spot all surrounding villages, from Zatolmin at the left, to the village of Ciginj (Čiginj) to the right.
Fenomenal view from mt. Kolovrat overlooking the beautiful valley of emerald river Soca. In the distance we can see the city of Kobarid and surrounding villages of Ladra, Svino, Idrsko and Smast.
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findlaw.com: Have you been hurt in an accident that wasn't your fault? No, we're not hawking legal services on television. We just want to let you know that you may need to bring a serious claim if you're hoping to collect on the pain and suffering. This article details the factors that jurors may consider:
- The age of the injured victim. Younger victims may get larger pain-and-suffering damages, if they will have to deal with pain for the rest of their lives.
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- How the injury affects the victim. This includes consideration of past, present, and future pain and suffering — including the certainty of future pain.
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The overall employment rate nine months after graduation was 85.6 percent, the lowest it has been since 1994, according to a NALP – The Association for Legal Career Professionals press release. But the employment rate doesn't tell the whole, dismal story.
Among law grads whose employment status was known, only 65.4 percent were in jobs requiring bar passage, the lowest percentage ever measured by NALP. The number has fallen nine percentage points since 2008. Only 60 percent were working full-time as lawyers in jobs that required bar passage."
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Sixty percent of those surveyed by the New York Times and CBS News said they believe that appointing Supreme Court justices for life is a bad thing because it gives them too much power. Thirty-three percent, on the other hand, said lifetime appointments were a good thing because it keeps the justices independent."
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But this year at least 10 law schools are cutting class sizes in an "unprecedented" nod to the changing legal profession, the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports. The number of applicants is also down by 14 percent from last year."
Estate of Denial: "For a man who's been diagnosed with diabetes, you'd never guess that about Steven Cooksey. His life choices fly directly in the face of the American Diabetes Association's recommendations for people living with the disease. He maintains a no-grain/low-carbohydrate diet, commonly known as the Paleo diet, and as a result is in fantastic health. Incredibly, because of his dietary decisions, Cooksey no longer requires insulin injections (on his website, he states that before adopting the Paleo diet he was taking four insulin shots a day). With those kind of seemingly miraculous results, it's no surprise that Cooksey wanted to share his story and hopefully help others with what he's learned through his own research and experience.
While trying to help others, Cooksey also has no problem making his disagreements with the ADA known. However, little did he know that by blogging about his success in maintaining his diabetes with the Paleo diet while also lambasting the ADA for its dietary policies would lead to him becoming a target for government censorship."
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Algorithms could be used to make predictions based on the historical data, Law Technology News reports. "Called quantitative legal prediction, it's basically what happens when the latest technology trend—called 'big data'—meets the law," the story says. "And it just might change how corporate general counsel and BigLaw manage legal matters and costs, how they craft legal arguments, and whether, how, and where they file a lawsuit.""