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Time Warner Cable was founded 1n 1989 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. It is a cable television company serving 27 states by providing digital cable television and telephone services and high speed internet access.

Other Time Warner Cable products include cable TV advertising services and local television stations that feature news, weather, and sports broadcasting. Time Warner Cable is listed as an investing interest in Si TV, an English-language television network featuring programs aimed at young Latinos. Embracing the rapidly expanding Latino American culture, the network’s slogan is “Speak English. Live Latin.”

Time Warner Cable got its start when Time Inc. merged its cable television company, American Television and Communications Corp., with Warner Cable, the television operations of Warner Communications. In 1995, Time Warner Cable launched its cable modem service, which is now known as Road Runner.

The ever-expanding scope of Time Warner Cable now includes acquisition of Adelphia, partnership with Advance/Newhouse Communications (Time Warner Entertainment - Advance/Newhouse Partnership, referred to as TWEAN), and a joint venture with Sprint Nextel. These holdings allow Time Warner Cable to offer a suite of products that links in-home and out-of-home entertainment, communications, and information services.

There was a time when Time Warner was associated with AOL but that partnership has been dissolved.

March 1, 2007, marks the company’s debut on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Time Warner, Time Warner Cable’s parent company, holds the majority of the voting shares of stock. The company’s performance on the NYSE can be tracked by monitoring its stock symbol, TWX.

Latest revenue figures for Time Warner Cable are available for the fiscal year 2005, indicating $43.6 billion in annual earnings, up 4 percentage points (almost $9.5 billion) from the previous year. Also growing is Time Warner Cable’s labor force. Employment records for the 2005 fiscal year list 87,850 employees, up by almost 3,000 positions from the previous year.

At the time of this writing, Time Warner Cable does not operate in the state of Oregon.