Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorPaul Kagan, who built his expertise in the budding cable television business into the longtime media consulting business Kagan and Associates, died Aug.
23 of kidney failure in Carmel, Calif. He was 82.Kagan was born and raised in the Bronx and graduated Hunter College. He started out as a sportswriter in Binghampton, N.Y.
and worked as a dj and sports announcer. In New York, he did PR for Stan Lee at Marvel Comics and sold radio advertising. While working as a broadcasting securities analyst at E.F.
Hutton, he began his fascination with the cable television industry.He founded Paul Kagan Associates in 1969, publishing the first newsletter on the subject, and becoming the first analyst to publish public company.
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