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Charter CEO Tom Rutledge
Charter Communications chief executive Tom Rutledge will look to buy more cable assets if they become available.
"From an M&A perspective, I think cable is a great business. If there were assets for sale that we could do more of, we would do that," Rutledge said at the UBS Global Media & Communications Conference.
"We've been buying a lot of our own stock back," he continued. "Why? Because we think the cable business is a great business and we haven't been able to buy other cable assets."
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