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x Making Connections : Time Warner Cable and the Broadband Revolution With broadcast television reception hard to come by in the shadow of Mt. Hood, the residents of The Dalles, Oregon, welcomed the arrival of coaxial cable installers, and cable television, in 1954.
Chapter 1 Birth of an Industry Late 1940s–Late 1960s
Page 5 and 6: Time Warner Cable and the Broadband
Page 7: Contents vii Welcome to the History
Page 10 and 11: Time Warner Cable Milestones Americ
Page 14 and 15: TelePrompTer, one of the first larg
Page 16 and 17: TelePrompTer CEO Irving Berlin Kahn
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Page 20 and 21: TOP Feisty Philo T. Farnsworth batt
Page 22 and 23: TOP Milton Berle and other radio pe
Page 24 and 25: Cable antennas, initially referred
Page 26 and 27: Martin Malarkey founded the cable s
Page 28 and 29: Gene Schneider was one of dozens of
Page 30 and 31: “Hell, I’ve Got a Management Co
Page 32 and 33: TelePrompTer’s Irving Kahn demons
Page 34 and 35: In 1963, Ralph Roberts bought the f
Page 36 and 37: By the late 1960s, innovative cable
Page 38 and 39: Monty Rifkin persuaded his partner,
Page 40 and 41: The Cusp of Growth A decade after p
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Page 44 and 45: Public access programming, such as
Page 46 and 47: TOP ATC’s status as a profitable,
Page 48 and 49: Pete Conrad: The Right Stuff ATC’
Page 50 and 51: Judy Braden, dispatch supervisor in
Page 52 and 53: Rifkin followed Walt Disney into th
Page 54 and 55: “It Was Easy to Get Ahead” Ambi
Page 56 and 57: Many early cable television program
Page 58 and 59: Jimmy Doolittle joined ATC as it ex
Page 60 and 61: Sterling Manhattan struggled to exp
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Demo vans that crisscrossed the cit
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“If I Could Ever Get Into Anythin
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Quick to grasp the potential of sat
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RIGHT Ted Turner’s willingness to
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TOP Warner Cable’s two-way, inter
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Warner Cable raced to produce or ac
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“If the Price Is Right …” The
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In order to control costs that were
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Jim Gray led Warner Cable during a
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Seven technicians who joined the co
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TOP Terry O’Connell was one of se
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Jack Gault, named president of ATC
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The collapse of Warner Communicatio
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David O’Hayre, head of ATC’s me
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Nick Nicholas, named president of T
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TOP Jim Chiddix, who moved from Haw
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1986 IPO Values ATC at $1.6 Billion
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ATC to Stamford, Connecticut When N
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The merger nearly foundered on the
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100 Making Connections : Time Warne
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Dick Aurelio, the former New York C
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“Cable’s Finest Hour” CNN had
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Veteran Warner Cable engineer Roose
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Becoming Time Warner Cable After mo
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Jerry Levin, who was named co-CEO o
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Despite the initial handshakes and
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The Full Service Network demonstrat
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“The Reality Was the Complexity
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Retransmission Consent The cable te
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Social Contract While Time Warner C
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Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin ignored
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RIGHT Jerry Levin, right, and Ted T
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Consumer demand for cable news prog
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“We Can’t Let Them Do This” W
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Venturing Abroad With the ’92 Act
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The 1996 Telecommunications Act, si
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As far as the visitors from Intel w
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Road Runner, the first cable-delive
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“The Feeling of Satisfaction was
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Jim Gray, right, who retired from T
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AthenaTV, a satellite-based joint e
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Chief technology officer Mike LaJoi
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Time Warner president Richard Parso
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America Online Chairman and CEO Ste
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AOL Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin, le
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“My sense was that the Internet a
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Within a few months of the AOL-Time
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RIGHT AOL Time Warner Chief Technol
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AT&T chairman and CEO Michael Armst
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Bob Pittman, the former AOL CEO who
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Advance/Newhouse to Bright House By
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Time Warner Cable’s NY1 acts as t
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The company-wide rollout of Voice o
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Time Warner Cable technicians answe
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Glenn Britt reached into the Time W
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TOP The 2004 conviction of Adelphia
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“I Felt I Was Truly Valued by Thi
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Shortly after Time Warner Cable wen
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“How Does It Get Better Than That
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Chairman and CEO Glenn Britt, cente
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Ads and other marketing materials p
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Time Warner Cable’s board of dire
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192 Afterword
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Acknowledgments We would like to th
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196 Notes
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12 ATC company timeline, p. 1. 13
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102 “The World of Business Deal o
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74 Time Warner, Form 10-K for the y
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Photo Credits Introduction iv-v Tim
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Index A “Abel Cable” 11 Aberdee
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M MacKinnon, Gail 135-136 Maffei, G
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