Charter COO John Bickham Rips Time Warner Cable on Conference Call

In discussing a bid to acquire his cable TV competitor, he says, "It's obvious the turnaround for TWC requires more work than originally thought." On a conference call intended to ratchet up the pressure on Time Warner Cable to accept its merger offer, Charter Communications COO John Bickham slammed his competitor with a wide-ranging, nasty critique that gives new meaning to the phrase "hostile takeover." Bickham said that TWC has exhibited a "failed operating strategy revealed by fact that they...