Cablevision Systems appoints former NYPSC Commissioner and Deputy Chair to Senior Vice President of Regulatory and Legal Affairs - Telephony and Data Services Division.WOODBURY, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 2, 1996--Cablevision Systems Corporation (ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) A relational DBMS from Sybase that runs on Windows NT/2000, Linux and a variety of Unix platforms. ASE is a comprehensive and robust data management product with a long history dating back to the late 1980s. :CVC See CSC. ) today announced Lisa Rosenblum has joined the company as senior vice president of regulatory and legal affairs of Cablevision's Telephony and Data Services division , reporting to Joseph W. Cece, president of Telephony and Data Services and senior vice president of Strategic Planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. . Ms. Rosenblum will direct regulatory initiatives and compliance issues for Cablevision Lightpath, the company's telephony subsidiary, as well as for Cablevision's cable modem cable modem Modem used to convert analog data signals to digital form and vise versa, for transmission or receipt over cable television lines, especially for connecting to the Internet. and video-on-demand services. Ms. Rosenblum joined Cablevision following her position as commissioner and deputy chair of the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State Public Service Commission where she focused on telecommunications and competitive policies. In making today's announcement, Mr. Cece said: "We are delighted to have Ms. Rosenblum join the company. Her extensive background in telecommunications regulation and leadership in structuring a proactive competitive framework for telecommunications in New York State makes her a vital asset to our company." Sheila Mahony, Cablevision's senior vice president of Communications and Public Affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. , said: "As Cablevision moves rapidly into new avenues of communications, it is more important than ever to attract those with unparalleled expertise in telecommunications regulation and policy. We are fortunate that Lisa Rosenblum will join us to play a major role in this effort." At the NYPSC, Ms. Rosenblum focused on telecommunications, and during her tenure, the Commission adopted a comprehensive framework for local competition. New York State is a recognized leader in fostering local exchange competition. Ms. Rosenblum also served as chair of the Communications Committee of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC NARUC National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners ). In this capacity, she represented the interests of state commissions before Congress and the FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. , and led the states' efforts on the Telecommunications Act of 1996. In addition, Ms. Rosenblum served as an advisor on Telecommunications Policy in the Czech Republic and Poland as part of the State Department delegation; as a contributor to the 1994 National Governor's Association Report on Telecommunications; and as an editor and coordinator of the Governor's "New York Telecommunications Exchange Report" in 1993. Ms. Rosenblum spent nearly 14 years at the NYPSC in various assignments including executive deputy to the chairman and director of the Consumer Services Division. She also served as assistant counsel to former New York Governor Hugh Carey and as an associate Attorney in the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Law firm of Webster & Sheffield. Ms. Rosenblum clerked for Federal District Court Judge T.F. Gilroy Daly upon graduation from law school. Ms. Rosenblum holds a J.D. from the Connecticut School of Law, where she served as an editor of the Law Review, and a B.A., Cum Laude in History from Yale University, where she was captain and number one player of the Yale women's varsity tennis team. Cablevision Systems Corp. is the nation's sixth largest operator of cable television systems, serving 2.8 million customers in 19 states and, through its wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. , Rainbow Programming, manages entertainment, news, and sports programming. Cablevision Lightpath Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cablevision, provides telephone service to more than 300 business customers on Long Island. CONTACT: Cablevision Systems Corp. Charles Schueler, 516/393-1399 |
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