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U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
FORM 4
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or
Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
[_] Check box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations
may continue. See Instruction 1(b).
(Print or Type Responses)
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
Kalkwarf Kent D.
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(Last) (First) (Middle)
c/o Charter Communications, Inc.
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(Street)
12405 Powerscourt Drive
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(City) (State) (Zip)
St. Louis MO 63131
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2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Charter Communications, Inc. - CHTR
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3. IRS Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an Entity (Voluntary)
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4. Statement for Month/Year
August 2002
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5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year)
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6. Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
[_] Director [_] 10% Owner
[X] Officer (give title below) [_] Other (specify below)
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check applicable line)
[X] Form filed by One Reporting Person
[_] Form filed by more than One Reporting Person
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Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of,
or Beneficially Owned
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6.
4. 5. Owner-
Securities Acquired (A) or Amount of ship
3. Disposed of (D) Securities Form: 7.
Transaction (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) Beneficially Direct Nature of
2. Code ------------------------------- Owned at End (D) or Indirect
1. Transaction (Instr. 8) (A) of Month Indirect Beneficial
Title of Security Date ------------ Amount or Price (Instr. 3 (I) Ownership
(Instr. 3) (mm/dd/yy) Code V (D) and 4) (Instr.4) (Instr. 4)
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Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities
beneficially owned directly or indirectly. (Over)
* If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see
Instruction 4(b)(v). SEC 1474 (7-96)
FORM 4 (continued)
Table II -- Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
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10.
9. Owner-
Number ship
of Form
2. Deriv- of
Conver- 5. 7. ative Deriv- 11.
sion Number of Title and Amount Secur- ative Nature
or Derivative 6. of Underlying 8. ities Secur- of
Exer- 4. Securities Date Securities Price Bene- ity: In-
cise 3. Trans- Acquired (A) Exercisable and (Instr. 3 and 4) of ficially Direct direct
Price Trans- action or Disposed Expiration Date ---------------- Deriv- Owned (D) or Bene-
1. of action Code of(D) (Month/Day/Year) Amount ative at End In- ficial
Title of Deriv- Date (Instr. (Instr. 3, ---------------- or Secur- of direct Owner-
Derivative ative (Month/ 8) 4 and 5) Date Expira- Number ity Month (I) ship
Security Secur- Day/ ------ ------------- Exer- tion of (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr.
(Instr. 3) ity Year) Code V (A) (D) cisable Date Title Shares 5) 4) 4) 4)
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5.75% Charter
Convertible Sr. $21.56 8/7/02 P $200,000 Immed. 10/15/05 Class A 9,276 $88,237.50 $200,000 D
Notes Common
Stock
(1) (2)
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(1) Aggregate face value.
(2) Aggregate purchase price.
** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal
Criminal Violations.
See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15. U.S.C. 78ff(a).
Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If
space is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure.
/s/ Kent D. Kalkwarf August 8, 2002
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Kent D. Kalkwarf
** Signature of Reporting Person
Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained
in this form are not required to respond unless the form displays a currently
valid OMB Number.
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