Bob Magness Obit.  Hall County Texas

Submitted by Darren McCathern quohadi@arn.net
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Darren McCathern, quohadi@arn.net  TX Panhandle Archives Manager 
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November 15, 1996 - Cable TV has come a long way since Bob Magness started his 
business some 40 years ago in Memphis Texas. Working out of his kitchen, Bob ran 
the wires personally from pole to pole, while his first wife stayed at home and 
ran the operation from their kitchen. They had 700 subscribers. He later merged 
his two business, Community Television Inc. and its microwave distribution 
partnership, Western Microwave Inc., to create TCI when he moved to Denver in 
1968. Now TCI has over 14 million subcribers (including yours truly). Bob was 
listed as one of the richest men in Colorado, worth an estimated $1 billion! Bob 
had contracted lymphoma cancer and was being treated at the University of 
Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville when he passed away at the age of 72.

Source:
 CJ Networks - Kansas