time warner cable is up sharply since it was spunoff, and cablevision is down. cablevision, one they get past this first quarter, is going to start looking 12 months out, like a bargain at 14 and change. >> and there's real momentum in the group. again, lifting a lot of boats. but cablevision, you're say welcome hasn't really performed. >> well, that's good. >> yeah, that's good. >> you know, i can't hit home runs all the time. look, the knicks were on the road show and they lost four in a row. now they look like a team. >> all right. >> but indiana will be an interesting game on sunday. >> we'll be watching. mario, good to have you on the program. >> always fun. >> mario gabelli joining us. >> a stock picker's stock picker if ever there was one. let's take a look at some of today's big movers. josh lipton here with the details. >> a roundup of some names making headlines today. ross stores, nice move on solid volume, reported a surprise 2% rise in march. same-store sales also saying it's looking for first quarter earnings to be a bit above the high end of its f

tracy: cablevision is a family business.ot one, but two family members to bigger jobs. dennis kneale has the details now. dennis: cablevision ceo gave a big promotion to his wife never mind the couple separated a couple of months ago. he runs the family controlled company and owns the company. he also promoted his brother-in-law to a new strategy job, but before the critics start talking, keep in mind a couple of things. he is a well-regarded 22 year veteran and build the brand because customers hated cablevision itself and turned it into an internet powerhouse now 3.1 million internet subscribers, 54% of the customer base. an industry high penetration rate. 100,000 wi-fi hotspots. cablevision alone has 75,000 of them. she did that. joining in 1990 rows up to the sales marketing, met jim dolan and married him in 2002. gaining prowess as others have left. now this promotion to president of octomom services. still, a lighter among media stocks up 8% in the past year. the slowest growth of the media players. keep in mind it is

cablevision c.e.o. jim dole an handed a big promotion to his wife.couple separated a few months ago and that kristin will be reporting to jim dolan. he runs the family controlled company started by his father and just promoted his brother-in-law to a new strategy job. but before corporate critics start carping, let's note that kristan is a well regarded 22-year veteran at cablevision. she built the brand into a power house with 75,000 wi-fi hot spots and 3.1 million on line sub. a combative cablevision spokesman saying it should come as a surprise to absolutely no one that the dolan family continues to be in the top levels of management in the company as it has been since the company was founded 40 years ago. and the stars of late night leno, fallon, alec baldwin? very late. maybe an interview show on a public radio show that he created. here is the thing, cheryl. cheryl: all right. it's good when he's funny. i like him when he's funny. not when he's serious. it will cost you a lot of green to see who wins the grown jacket this year. this year ticket

she has a lot of friends in cablevision.le. >> uh-huh. >> she seemed to be very good at whatever she attempted. i mean, she was very good at her job. she was a take charge person, too. you know, something came on, oh, this person's going to have a baby, oh, all right, okay, you go out and again this, we'll go do that. you get this, and we'll get together. it's just the way she was. >> everything was ironed and down to, like, the littlest thing, like her pants were ironed, her shirts for ironed, this was ironed. the kids' clothes were ironed. i'm like, when do you do this? >> she made me a book with all the little pictures of the children. she had to put the kids to bed, she'd work on it every night. and then she was starting another one for me. the end. i said, diane, where do you get the time? because by the time she would leave my house and get home, it was 7:00 in the evening. but then she'd feed them dinner. then she would bathe them. then she would take bryan and read his book to him then put him into bed. then she woul

one against them in favor of cablevisions systems, because it stored programs and let you call up later the cable company paid for the programs. that is different from barry diller and aereo. they haven't played for a thing. they are stealing signals. it is piracy is what the broadcasters say. melissa: tuna, who is the money winner and loser in all of this? you think networks come out on top? if their stock gets hit it is opportunity? >> melissa, is hard to know how decision like this will play out over several years but what i think is interesting here it happened at a time when investors begun to get more excited about the economics of local television stations precisely because of retransmission consent, right? melissa: yeah. >> it really begs the question likes of comcast or time warner cable should continue to pay billions of dollars to the broadcasters for content essentially will be now available for, you know over the air, over antennas. really -- >> let me --. melissa: hang on, what does it mean for the consumer? that is what people at home are wondering aell. everybody's cable

>> caller: buddy, my stock is cablevision, cvc. >> just okay, just okay. i work for a cable company, and i'll tell you that cable company's better and so are all the others. let's go to dick in virginia. dick! >> caller: thanks for taking my call. >> sure. >> caller: i have two stocks. cummings engine, it's been a little weak of late, a machinery stock and caterpillar is -- >> the problem with both of those companies is china! they have too much china. got to wait until after they report and then we can take a look at them. no, no, no, roy in florida. roy. >> caller: boo-yah, jim. this is roy from miami, florida. my question today is about ala communications. >> they missed the quarter really bad and it's down so low -- i mean, they missed the quarter bad. and i can't recommend selling into. let's go to joe in michigan. joe?! >> caller: hi, jim, your opinion on the cloud computing area, specifically, salesforce.com. >> now with a split, i think the stock will calm down and i recommend it. i think mark bettyoff is best in show. i know the stock's been rocky

you've got an 87-year-old chuck dolan at cablevision, but cable owe vision, at least by the way raiselidating a big. >> malone is no spring chicken hips. >> no. >> we talked in a fact that you rarely get an opportunity to with people like that about his estate, about his exit plan. he is, in fact, not leaving any of this to his children and he has a younger of foundations and we're going to share it later, but voting control stakes will have an opportunity to go back to the management teams of which they're a part -- and it's not dynastic. >> he spoke about netflix, too, right? >> if he's betting big on cable, you know he has an opinion on that. he does, but it's an interesting one. >> let's get a market flash from josh at hq. >> an analyst changes his mind on herbalife and well-known herbalife cue and earlier this week he went neutral on the stock with kpmg could have a serious negative impact on the shares, but the company says it does not see the risk of a delisting notice on the nyse. it does not expect to be in v e violation of the loan covenance. he takes it back as a buy and hl

i was watching the ncaa turn at and right through the middle of it there was a cablevision commercial to get netflix is if you have optimum online. so i think you will see these kind of bundles with netflix evolve whether they're synthetic or working directly with netflix. you will see a lot of people promoting and marketing netflix itself and that was a key catalyst for why we put it on the stock today. >> you talk about netflix convincing you. how do we know there's not some weirdo quickster, and how do we know investors won't react as violently to that as we did to quickster. >> hopefully, there will be no teal blue shirts ever again that he shoots on a weekend afternoon and look, the reality is we cited it, p.r. missteps are one of the biggest challenges here. this is a consumer brand. unlike like a lot of media, you talk to malone last week and when you talk to him, this is still the business where there's this wholesale, retail relationship where the programmers are dealing with the distributors and netflix is still going direct to the consumer and it's brand and the perception