8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report: July 2, 2015

CINCINNATI BELL INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Ohio	001-8519	31-1056105
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)

221 East Fourth Street

Cincinnati, OH 45202

(Address of Principal Executive Office)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (513) 397-9900

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

o Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

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Item 5.02 - Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

(d)    Effective July 2, 2015, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) elected Martin J. Yudkovitz as a director of the Company. Mr. Yudkovitz was elected to fill an existing vacancy on the Board and will serve a term expiring at the 2016 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. It has not yet been determined to which Board committees that Mr. Yudkovitz will be appointed. The Company will file an amendment to this Form 8-K filing under Item 5.02 after such committee appointments are made. Mr. Yudkovitz will receive compensation from the Company for service on the Board on the same terms as other non-employee members of the Board. There is no arrangement or understanding between Mr. Yudkovitz and any other persons or entities pursuant to which Mr. Yudkovitz was elected as a director.

A copy of the press release announcing Mr. Yudkovitz’s election to the Board is attached to this Form 8-K and incorporated herein.

Item 9.01 - Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d)	Exhibits
	Exhibit No.	Exhibit Description
	Exhibit 99.1	Press release dated July 2, 2015 announcing the election of Martin J. Yudkovitz to the Board.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

		CINCINNATI BELL INC.
Date:	July 2, 2015	By:	/s/ Christopher J. Wilson
			Christopher J. Wilson
			Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

EX-99.1

Cincinnati Bell Elects New Board Member Martin J. Yudkovitz

CINCINNATI - July 2, 2015 - Cincinnati Bell Inc. (NYSE: CBB) today announced the election of Martin J. Yudkovitz as a director of the Company.

Until his recent retirement, Mr. Yudkovitz, 61, led The Walt Disney Company Strategic Innovation Group, which identifies and develops new businesses for Disney across all of its business lines and manages the corporate-wide process for strategic business innovation.

Prior to that role, Mr. Yudkovitz served as Senior Vice President for Corporate Strategy and Business Development at Disney, starting in June 2005.

Prior to joining Disney, Mr. Yudkovitz was President of TiVo, the pioneering DVR innovator.

Mr. Yudkovitz was previously a long-time senior executive at NBC, working in virtually all areas of the business and on almost all of NBC’s major strategic projects during his 20 years at the company. Among the positions he held at NBC were President of NBC Business Development, Founder and President of NBC Digital Media, and Executive Vice President of NBC, Inc.

He was among the small initial team that developed and launched CNBC, NBC’s first cable network. Mr. Yudkovitz was also the primary designer of the innovative partnership with Microsoft that formed MSNBC, NBC’s second cable network.

Mr. Yudkovitz joined NBC in 1983, briefly serving as Senior Counsel in the Law Department, before moving to NBC Sports, where he led business affairs for both the Seoul and Barcelona Olympics, for which he won an Emmy.

Mr. Yudkovitz is a Senior Fellow at Duke University’s Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics, a Dean’s Fellow at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and an Adjunct Professor of UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce.

About Cincinnati Bell Inc.

With headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Bell (NYSE: CBB) provides integrated communications solutions - including local and long distance voice, data, high-speed internet and video - that keep residential and business customers in Greater Cincinnati and Dayton connected with each other and with the world. In addition, enterprise customers across the United States rely on CBTS, a wholly-owned subsidiary, for efficient, scalable office communications systems and end-to-end IT solutions. Cincinnati Bell owns approximately 11 percent of CyrusOne (NASDAQ: CONE), which is held in the form of CyrusOne common stock and CyrusOne LP partnership units. CyrusOne specializes in highly reliable enterprise-class, carrier-neutral data center properties and provides mission-critical data center facilities that protect and ensure the continued operation of IT infrastructure for its customers. For more information, please visit www.cincinnatibell.com.

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Cincinnati Bell Inc.

Investor contact:

Josh Duckworth

+1 513 397 2292

joshua.duckworth@cinbell.com

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+1 513 397 9941

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