Altice USA, the fourth-largest U.S. cable company, agreed to pay $200 million for news start-up Cheddar, an online channel that appeals to the younger audiences who are abandoning traditional TV.
Former BuzzFeed Chief Operating Officer Jon Steinberg, shown in 2013, started Cheddar in 2016.
Altice, which provides video, internet and phone service to about 4.9 million customers under the names Optimum and Suddenlink, has a news division that includes the News 12 Networks, covering communities around New York City. It also operates an international news channel called i24News.Cheddar’s programming appears in gyms and cafeterias on college campuses and reaches 40 million homes that subscribe to pay TV, according to a statement Tuesday.
Altice was already an investor in Cheddar, which was started in 2016 by former BuzzFeed Chief Operating Officer Jon Steinberg as an online business news channel for millennials. Last year, Cheddar raised $22 million from investors such as Raine Ventures, Liberty Global and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Existing investors included Lightspeed Venture Partners, Comcast Corp., AT&T Inc., the New York Stock Exchange and Amazon.com Inc.
Cheddar has two networks, one focused on business news and another on general news. Though it began online, Steinberg often found creative ways to distribute the channel more broadly. He cut deals so Cheddar could appear on screens at gas stations or air its programming on digital UHF stations such as channel 42.5 in Kansas City, Mo.Get breaking stories straight from Hollywood, covering film, television, music and more.
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