"I'm saddened that he's taken this personally," said Michael Willner, a friend who runs Insight Communications, a cable TV company.
Insight Communications, New York, 4.4 million Class A shares.
Insight Communications, a cable television company in the Midwest U.S.
Cable television is provided by Insight Communications in some parts of the county.
"There is no demand for the Internet on television," said Michael Willner, the president of Insight Communications.
In March, the Carlyle Group and the co-founders of Insight Communications, the nation's ninth-largest cable television operator, proposed taking that company private.
The market was widely served by Insight Communications through 2007.
On August 13, 2011, Time Warner Cable announced its purchase of Insight Communications for $3 billion.
Another operator, Insight Communications, says it has reduced its churn rate by half since it began offering interactive channels.
Insight Communications, the country's ninth-largest cable operator and the first large one to roll out digital cable to essentially its entire service area, says initial signs are encouraging.