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BCI Broadband, a company formed by some ex-Bresnan Communications execs in 2012, has cut a deal to buy Allegiance Communications, a Tier 2 operator with systems in Arkansas, Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma that pass more than 150,000 homes. BCI Broadband, led by President and CEO Jeffrey DeMond and EVP and CFO Andrew Kober, expects to close the deal in the early part of 2013. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the deal establishes a partnership between BCI's management and BBH Capital Partners, a private equity fund that typically invests between $20 million and $75 million "per platform investment." As for DeMond's and Kober's former company, Bresnan, Cablevision bought it in 2010 for $1.36 billion and is currently listening to offers for those systems, now referred to as Optimum West, that serve 360,000 subs in parts of Montana, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. (See Cablevision Considers Bresnan Offers.)
Suddenlink Communications has promoted Kevin Stephens to president of the MSO's Dallas-based commercial and advertising operations (CAO) unit, which now brings in about $350 million per year. Stephens, who joined Suddenlink in May 2006, helped to form the unit and has already been leading it in the role of SVP. Suddenlink also promoted Brian May to VP, information technology; and Bradley Cook to VP, technical operations for the company's central region.
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