MCN - December 7, 2009

The following is an edited version of a story by K.C. Neel that appeared in the May 25, 2009 issue of Multichannel News, as part of a special report on Bresnan Communications’s 25th anniversary. Over half a century, Bill Bresnan built cable systems from scratch, ran small and large cable companies — including the country’s largest MSO at the time — and was at the forefro...

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