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BendBroadband - Wikipedia

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BendBroadband

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Telecommunications Mass media
Founded	1955
Headquarters	Bend, Oregon , United States
Area served	Central Oregon
Products	Cable television Broadband internet VoIP phone Television broadcasting
Revenue	US$70 million (2013)
Number of employees	280 (May 2014)
Parent	Telephone and Data Systems
Subsidiaries	Zolo Media KBNZ KOHD
Website	bendbroadband.com

BendBroadband is a cable television and internet provider in the U.S. state of Oregon. Based in Bend, it serves Central Oregon and also owns several television stations and a data center. As of September 2014, the company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, a Fortune 500 company.

History

The company was founded as Bend TV Cable in 1955.^[1] Don Ries and Fred Hartman worked to start the company that started with three channels and charged $3.69 per month.^[2] Donald Tykeson bought the company in 1983.^[3] In 1997, the company, then known as Bend Cable Communications Inc., started providing internet service.^[1] It announced in 1998 it would expand its fiber optic network to Redmond and Sisters.^[4] By 2004, the company had moved to the BendBroadband moniker, and that year introduced high-definition video-on-demand to its system utilizing technology from nCUBE.^[5]

In 2009, the company started a wireless network to provide internet and telephone service, which was upgraded to LTE in 2011.^[6] BendBroadband opened a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m²) data center, the Vault, in 2011.^[7]^[8] In February 2014, it sold off its LTE spectrum to AT&T.^[6] The company sold itself to Telephone and Data Systems (TDS) for $261 million in May 2014.^[9] At that time the company had $70 million in annual revenues and 280 employees with Amy Tykeson as CEO.^[1]

Operations

BendBroadband serves 36,000 cable customers, 22,000 landline customers, and 41,000 internet customers.^[1] It also owns Zolo Media, which operates KBNZ, KOHD, and COTV11, plus an advertising division.^[8]^[9] The company also owns a data center, the Vault,^[8] which is now part of OneNeck IT Solutions, a TDS Company.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Rogoway, Mike (May 2, 2014). "BendBroadband sold to TDS for $261 million". The Oregonian. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
^ Rogoway, Mike (May 4, 2014). "Why did Bend have cable TV in the 1950s?". The Oregonian. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
^ Stevens, Suzanne (September 26, 2012). "OSU Bend campus gets $1M gift". Portland Business Journal. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
^ "Bend Cable reaches out". Portland Business Journal. December 4, 1998. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
^ Earnshaw, Aliza (February 18, 2004). "NCube forging deals". Portland Business Journal. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Business briefing: BendBroadband sells spectrum". The Bulletin. Bend, Ore. February 25, 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
^ Williams, Christina (June 24, 2011). "BendBroadband beats Facebook to coal-free green data center". Sustainable Business Oregon. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c "About". BendBroadband. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
^ ^a ^b Spencer, Malia (May 2, 2014). "BendBroadband sells to Chicago cable firm for $261M". Portland Business Journal. Retrieved 3 May 2014.

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