Company Further Strengthens Management Team with Addition of Former
Cable-Industry Communications Executive
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Adelphia
Communications Corporation (OTC: ADELQ) announced today that Paul E. Jacobson,
deputy communications director for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist
(R-TN), has been named Vice President of Communications for Adelphia,
effective July 7. The announcement was made by Ron Cooper, President and
Chief Operating Officer of Adelphia, to whom he will report.
In his new role, Mr. Jacobson will be responsible for Adelphia's corporate
communications activities ranging from media relations and employee
communications to community relations and corporate affairs.
Mr. Jacobson, 44, brings to Adelphia 23 years of media and communications
experience in cable television, government, the sports and entertainment
industries and as a journalist. Before joining Senator Frist's staff, he was
Vice President of Corporate Communications at Starz Encore Group of Englewood,
Colorado, a provider of premium movie channels to the cable and satellite
television industry.
"We are pleased that Paul has agreed to return to the Denver area to join
our management team," said Mr. Cooper. "He is a talented, well-respected,
cable industry communicator, and we look forward to the valuable contributions
he will make in support of our efforts to rebuild Adelphia."
Mr. Jacobson said, "I welcome the opportunity to return to Denver and
become part of the outstanding management team that will lead Adelphia through
a successful restructuring."
About Paul Jacobson
Most recently, Mr. Jacobson was Deputy Communications Director for U.S.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.). In addition to overseeing
communications for the Medicare and prescription drug legislation as it moved
through the Senate, Mr. Jacobson advised Sen. Frist on communications
activities and served as a spokesman on a variety of issues before the Senate.
Before returning to public service, Jacobson was Vice President of
Corporate Communications at Starz Encore Group. Mr. Jacobson also served as
Director of Corporate Communications for Denver-based Ascent Entertainment
Group, which owned the NHL Colorado Avalanche and NBA Denver Nuggets, and,
through Beacon Communications, produced major theatrical motion pictures.
Prior to joining Ascent, he was spokesman for Comsat Corporation, an
international satellite company.
Previously, Mr. Jacobson served as Deputy Press Secretary then Press
Secretary to former U.S. Senator Warren B. Rudman, (R-NH), and served as
Rudman's 1986 Senate reelection campaign spokesman. He also served as Deputy
Press Secretary to Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole (R-Kansas) and was New
England Regional Communications Director for Dole's 1988 presidential
campaign.
Before entering politics, Jacobson worked as an award-winning radio
journalist in New Hampshire. He received a BA in broadcast journalism and
political science from Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public
Communications and Maxwell School of Citizenship in 1980.
About Adelphia
Adelphia Communications Corporation is the fifth-largest cable television
company in the country. It serves 3,500 communities in 32 states and Puerto
Rico, and offers analog and digital cable services, high-speed Internet access
(Adelphia Power Link), and other advanced services.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Financial and Operating Data
As a result of actions taken by management of the Company during the time
it was controlled by the Rigas family: (a) the Company has not yet completed
its financial statements as of or for the years ended December 31, 2001 and
December 31, 2002, or received its independent public accountants' report
thereon or filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the years ended December 31,
2001 and December 31, 2002; (b) the Company's former independent public
accountants, Deloitte & Touche LLP, suspended their auditing work on the
Company's financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2001
and withdrew their audit report with respect to the year ended December 31,
2000; (c) the Company has not yet completed its financial statements as of and
for the three months ended March 31, 2003 or filed with the commission its
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2003; (d) the
Company has not yet completed its financial statements as of and for the three
months ended March 31, 2002, June 30, 2002 or September 30, 2002, or filed
with the Commission its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended
March 31, 2002, June 30, 2002 and September 30, 2002; and (e) the Company
expects to restate its financial statements for the years ended December 31,
1999 and 2000, and its interim financial statements for 2001 and possibly
other periods. Effective March 4, 2003, the Company hired a new Chief
Executive Officer and President and Chief Operating Officer. The new Chief
Executive Officer replaced the interim Chief Executive Officer who, along with
other members of the current management team, took control of the Company in
May 2002. Current management has retained new independent auditors and begun
the preparation of new financial statements for the periods in question. As a
result of certain actions of Rigas management that the Company has previously
disclosed, the Company is unable to predict at this time when such financial
statements will be completed. In addition, current management believes that
the public information provided by Rigas management on other matters of
interest to investors, such as the Company's rebuild percentage (the
percentage of the Company's cable television systems that the Company believes
have been upgraded to current standards), was unreliable. As a result, the
Company anticipates that it may have to supplement the financial and other
information contained in its filings with the Commission and that such
supplemental information may be material.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This document includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act")
and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
"Exchange Act"). All statements regarding the Company's expected future
financial position, results of operations, cash flows, restructuring and
financing plans, business strategy, budgets, projected costs, capital
expenditures, competitive positions, growth opportunities, plans and
objectives of management for future operations and statements that include
words such as "anticipate," "if," "believe," "plan," "estimate," "expect,"
"intend," "may," "could," "should," "will," and other similar expressions are
forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are inherently
uncertain, and readers must recognize that actual results may differ from the
Company's expectations. The Company does not undertake a duty to update such
forward-looking statements.
Actual future results and trends for the Company may differ materially
depending on a variety of factors discussed in the Company's filings with the
Commission, including its recently filed Current Reports on Form 8-K, the most
recently filed Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, the Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2000, and the most recent prospectus supplement filed under
Registration Statement No. 333-64224, under the section entitled "Risk
Factors" contained therein. Factors that may affect the plans or results of
the Company include, without limitation: (a) the Company's filing of a
petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code; (b)
the results of litigation against the Company including the recently filed
civil complaint by the Commission and the potential for a criminal indictment
of the Company; (c) the effects of government regulations and the actions of
local cable franchise authorities; (d) the availability of debtor-in-
possession financing and surety bonds to support the Company's operations; (e)
the results of the Company's internal investigation and the matters described
above under "Cautionary Statement Regarding Financial and Operating Data"; (f)
actions of the Company's competitors; (g) the pricing and availability of
equipment, materials, inventories and programming; (h) product acceptance and
customer spending patterns; (i) the Company's ability to execute on its
business plans, to provide uninterrupted service to its customers and to
conduct, expand and upgrade its networks; (j) technological developments; (k)
matters relating to or in connection with the bankruptcy filing and
proceedings of TelCove, Inc. (formerly known as Adelphia Business Solutions,
Inc.); (l) changes in general economic conditions and/or economic conditions
in the markets in which the Company may, from time to time, compete; (m) the
movement of interest rates and the resulting impact on the Company's interest
obligations with respect to its pre-petition bank debt; and (n) the delisting
of Adelphia Communications Corporation's common stock by Nasdaq. Many of such
factors are beyond the control of the Company and its management.
SOURCE Adelphia Communications Corporation
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