| Title: |
Monroe (Monty) Rifkin
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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: |
Monroe M. Rifkin is Chairman and CEO of Rifkin & Associates, Inc., an investment and management company he formed in 1982 to facilitate his entrepreneurial activities. Areas of activity include medical technology, real estate development, banking and, of course, cable television, with system ownership both domestically and abroad. The MSO he formed grew to a peak of 550,000 subscribers in 1999, at which time the major portion of the systems were sold to Paul Allen's Charter Communications. Rifkin was introduced to the cable television industry in 1959 while he was Executive Vice President of TelePrompTer Corporation. Bill Daniels had just started his cable brokerage operation in Denver and met with Rifkin in New York . That meeting resulted in TelePrompTer buying its initial three cable TV systems which Rifkin aggressively added to via a series of acquisitions.
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| URL: |
http://www.cablecenter.org/education/library/oralHistoryDetails.cfm?id=252
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Speaker: |
Rifkin, Monroe M. (Monty), 1930-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1930
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| Speaker place of birth: |
New York, NY; New York; United States; North America
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Interviewer: |
Keller, Jim
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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; Telecommunication cables; United States
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| ASP release: |
2006-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0033775-37063
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