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NormanS
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Re: Struggling?? Except for Frontier - not true

said by Cobra11M:

... tell that to the tax payers 40 years ago that paid for the cable in the first place ... government sold it to private ...

Looks like a guy named Bob Magness used borrowed money to build a CATV system from scratch. When it went public in 1972, it became, "Tele-Communications, Inc." (aka, "TCI"). Did I not dig deep enough? What will I find rooting around the Internet for the histories of the other MSOs?