| Title: |
Gustave M. Hauser
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Cable Center. Barco Library. Special Collections
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| Collection: |
Cable Center Oral History Collection
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| Description: |
Gustave Hauser began his cable career as chairman and CEO of Warner Cable Communications. (The company became Warner-Amex Cable Communications in 1980.) He helped build the company into one of the largest cable companies and while there he helped develop on of the first interactive cable television services, QUBE. He is also responsible for other innovations such as pay-per-view, Nickelodeon (the children's channel), MTV Music Television and The Movie Channel. In 1983, Hauser founded Hauser Communications, Inc. which today is a private investment and operating company in cable television and international satellite and other electronic communications.
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| URL: |
http://www.cablecenter.org/education/library/oralHistoryDetails.cfm?id=105
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Video: |
[Video available]
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1999 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Hauser, Gustave M., 1929-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1929
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Cleveland, OH; Ohio; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Age at speaking: |
70
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| Document location: |
New York, NY
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| Document date: |
03-Aug-1999
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| Interviewer: |
Southwick, Tom
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Broadcasting; Cable television--United States; North America; Oral history; Public broadcasting; Television; Television programs; United States
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Cable administrators
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0022741-24149
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