Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorPaul Kagan, a cable television pioneer who was among the first to discover the potential of the medium and became a key voice of the industry over decades, died of kidney failure on August 23.
He was 82. A private burial was held August 27 in Pacific Grove, CA due to COVID-19, but a celebration of his life will be planned for a later date.The eclectic New York native graduated from Hunter College ad held a series of media jobs, including as a radio sports announcer, deejay, newspaper editor and and PR rep for Stan Lee.
His love affair with cable was sparked in 1968 as a broadcast securities analyst for E.F. Hutton on Wall Street. He left to found Paul Kagan Associates in 1969 and in short order published the.
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