CABLE PIONEERS & HALL OF FAME 2015

Celebrating this year’s Cable Pioneers (l. to r.): Rick Michaels, Pioneer and Communications Equity Associates chairman; Maggie Miles, president, Miles Media; Les Read, executive director of the Cable TV Pioneers and a Pioneer himself; and Bob Berger, Pioneer and managing director, Communications Equity Associates.

Attending the Cable Hall of Fame event were (l. to r.) Steve Simmons, Patriot Media and Communications chairman and CHoF Honoree; Michael Willner, Penthera Partners CEO; Jerry Kent, Suddenlink chairman/CEO and chairman of The Cable Center’s board; and Cable Center president/CEO Larry Satkowiak.

(L. to r.) SNL Kagan’s Andrew Mearns fetes newly inducted Pioneer and Kagan colleague Sam Klosterman, with Julien Hervet of Microsoft and Rachael Loffler, also of SNL Kagan.

New Cable TV Pioneer Patricia Jo Boyers, Boycom Cablevision co-founder, addresses the crowd at the Pioneers ceremony.
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