IN RE ADELPHIA COMMUNICATIONS CORP.

No. 02-41729 (REG).

368 B.R. 140 (2007)

In re ADELPHIA COMMUNICATIONS CORP., et al., Debtors.

United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. New York.

January 3, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP by Myron Trepper, Esq., Roger D. Netzer, Esq., Paul V. Shalhoub, Esq., Marc Abrams, Esq., Brian E. O'Connor, Esq., Terence K. McLaughlin, Esq., Rachel Strickland, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for Debtors and Debtors in Possession.

Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP by David M. Friedman, Esq., Adam L. Shiff, Esq., Howard W. Schub, Esq., New York, NY, Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP by Edward T. Attanasio, Esq., Los Angeles, CA, Counsel for the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors.

Morgenstern Jacobs & Blue LLC by Gregory A. Blue, Esq., Eric B. Fisher, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for Official Committee of Equity Security Holders.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP by Martin J. Bienenstock, Esq., Vernon S. Broderick, Esq., Richard W. Slack, Esq., Adam P. Strochak, Esq., Eleanor Heard Gilbane, Esq., New York, NY, By: Melanie Gray, Esq., Bruce Lucas, Esq., James T. Grogan, III, Esq., Houston, TX, Counsel Stutman, Treister & Glatt, P.C. by Isaac Pachulski, Esq., Los Angeles, CA, Co-Counsel for the ACC Bondholder Group.

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP by David J. McCarty, Esq., Los Angeles, CA, Counsel for U.S. Bank National Association, as Indenture Trustee in Respect of the Arahova Notes.

Seward & Kissel LLP by Arlene R. Alves, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for Law Debenture Trust Company of New York, as ACC Senior Notes Trustee.

White & Case LLP by J. Christopher Shore, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for the Ad Hoc Committee of Arahova Noteholders.

Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP by Gary Kaplan, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for W.R. Huff Asset Management Co., L.L.C.

Haynes and Boone, LLP by Robin E. Phelan, Esq., Judith Elkin, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent for the Century Cable Lenders.

Bracewell & Giuliani LLP by Jennifer Feldcher, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for the Ad Hoc Committee of Non-Agent TCI and Parnassos Lenders.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP by Peter Pantaleo, Esq., Elisha D. Graff, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for Wachovia Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent for the UCA Lenders.

Goodwin Procter LLP by Michael K. Isenman, Esq., Washington, D.C., by Gina Lynn Martin, Esq., Boston, MA, by Allan S. Brilliant, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for Highfields Capital Management and Tudor Investment Corporation.

Pachulski Stang Ziehl Young Jones & Weintraub P.C. LLP by Dean Ziehl, Esq., New York, NY, by Richard Pachulski, Esq., Los Angeles, CA, Counsel for Ad Hoc Bondholders' Committee (a/k/a Committee II).

Clifford Chance U.S. LLP by Andrew Brozman, Esq., James Moyle, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for Calyon New York Branch.

Clifford Chance U.S. LLP by Angelique Shingler, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for Bank of NY.

Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP by Kathryn L. Turner, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for Perry Capital, LLC.

Sidley Austin LLP by Lee S. Attanasio, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for the. Fort Myers Noteholders.

Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard, P.A. by John H. Drucker, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for the Class Action Plaintiffs.

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP by Kenneth H. Eckstein, Esq., Jeffrey S. Trachtman, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for the FrontierVision Ad Hoc Committee.

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mc Cloy LLP by James C. Tecce, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for JPMorgan Chase Bank.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP by Richard L. Wynne, Esq., Michael I. Gottfried, Esq., Los Angeles, CA, Counsel for Ad Hoc Committee of Lenders.

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton by Lindsee P. Granfield, Esq., Luke A Barefoot, Esq., Jane Kim, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for Certain Investment Banks.

Satterlee, Stephens, Burke & Burke, LLP by Christopher R. Belmonte, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for Prestige Communications.

Shearman & Sterling, LLP by Marc B. Hankin, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for Rembrandt Technologies, L.P.

Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen, PC by David Parker, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for Elliot Associates, LP and John Pike.

United States Securities and Exchange Commission, by Patricia Schrage, Esq., New York, NY.

Kelley, Drye & Warren, LLP by Geoffrey W. Costello, Esq., Parsippany, NJ, Counsel for Wilmington Trust Co.

Dorsey & Whitney, LLP by Katherine A. Constantine, Esq., Minneapolis, MN, Counsel for U.S. Bank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee.

Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr, LLP by Joel Millar, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for Credit Suisse and Royal Bank of Scotland.

Luskin, Tern & Eisler, LLP by Michael Luskin, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for The Bank of Nova Scotia.

Farrell Fritz, P.C. by Louis A. Scarcella, Esq., Uniondale, NY, Counsel for Associated Electric & Gas.

Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels, LLP by Steven D. Pohl, Esq., New York, NY, Counsel for the Ad Hoc Trade Claims Committee.

Baker Botts, LLP by Eric Soderlund, Esq., Dallas, TX, Counsel for Verizon Media Ventures.

Office of the United States Trustee by Tracey Hope Davis, Esq., New York, NY.


BENCH DECISION ON CONFIRMATION1

ROBERT E. GERBER, Bankruptcy Judge.

                            TABLE OF CONTENTS

Bench Decision on Confirmation.................................................146

Findings of Fact...............................................................148
       A.    Background .......................................................148
       B.    New Leadership.............................

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