It originally operated cable systems on Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Over the next fourteen years, its operations spread to Minnesota Wisconsin, Mississippi and Georgia.
Bresnan re-entered the cable business in April 2002, with the $735 million purchase of former AT&T Broadband Rocky Mountain systems from Comcast.
Cablevision acquired Bresnan on June 13, 2010 for $1.37 billion and rebranded the systems as Optimum West.
[2] In February 2013, Charter Communications agreed to buy the former Bresnan systems for $1.625 billion.