The following article includes edited excerpts from the Syndeo Institute at the Cable Center and the Associated Press.
Bob Magness, who ran a tiny cable television comp any out of his kitchen before building Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI) into the nation’s largest cable provider, died of cancer in November 1996 at the age of 72.
Magness, described by Forbes magazine as having a net worth of $1 billi…
