Your Money > Dealbook: Kissing the Public Goodbye

[SatelliteGuys Reporter]

HO doesn't want a bit of privacy The family that controls announced plans last week to take the publicly held cable company private and as is the way of corporate America and Wall Street now lots of others are toying with the same concept. Paul Allen the billionaire who controls the beaten-down cable operator has been kicking around the idea of taking Charter off the public market according to executives close to the company.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/08/business/yourmoney/08deal.html