| Notes |
It was an amazing 33-year run! The duration and scale exceeded the wildest dreams of two freshly minted Harvard MBAs who in 1963 were searching for a promising venture, and who happened upon Bill Daniels, a former Golden Gloves boxer and Navy pilot, a future Colorado gubernatorial candidate and lifelong doer of good works, who throughout the 1960s and ’70s was the “John the Baptist” of cable, calling out for all to hear the amazing promise of what was then called community antenna television, or CATV.
It was that serendipitous meeting with Bill that spawned Continental Cablevision
and started the company on a path to prominence in the fast-growing communications industry. In that process, Continental created more than 10,000 jobs, trained a cadre of industry leaders, and, as my father modestly observed, “paid a lot of college tuition” for the families of its managers and investors.
So here is the best our collective memories could assemble in telling The Continental Cablevision Story. Three-plus decades of challenges and excitement—a fleeting almost- Camelot moment from 1963 to 1996. |