Tele-Communications, Inc. records, 1968-1999.

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Tele-Communications, Inc. records, 1968-1999.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48015579

Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) is a cable television company founded in 1952 by Bob and Betsy Magness. The TCI collection includes photographs of events, office locations, logos, technical devices and key company personnel. The records include programming schedules, press kits, press releases, employee policies, financial statements, legal documents, bographies of cable personalities, newspaper clippings, and U.S. House and Senate Subcommittee Hearings of testimonies of executives. Videos and audiotapes cover investor meetings, U.S. Federal Communications Commission proceedings, advertisements, interviews with executives, and programming promotions. Promotional objects include mugs, t-shirts, caps as well as awards, plaques and framed stock certificates.

95.5 linear ft. (122 boxes)

Cable Center, The

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Cable Center, The

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Magness, Betsy.

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Magness, Bob, 1924-1996.

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AT & T Broadband.

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Malone, John, 1941-

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Tele-Communications, Inc.

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Bob and Betsy Magness started in the cable industry in 1952 and built their first cable system in Memphis, Texas in 1956. In 1958, Bob Magness, Jack Gallivan, George Hatch and Brian Glasmann created a partnership called Western Microwave, Inc. to bring common carrier microwave signals to Montana. This company merged with Community Television, Inc. in 1968 forming American Tele-Communications, Inc. The subsidiaries were renamed Western-telecommunications Inc.(WTCI) and Community Tele-Communicatio...