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Article: The Cable Industry's Mr. Fix-It.(Cablevision Systems Corp. chief operating officer Tom Rutledge)
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- October 26, 2009
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by K.C. Neel
Tom Rutledge, Chief Operating Officer, Cablevision Systems
Tom Rutledge's first cable job was as a lineman with Eastern Telecom. He worked there summers to help pay for college.
He was an economics major and hadn't planned on cable as a career. But he liked the business and when he graduated in 1977, he saw an ad in the paper for a management trainee job with American Television & Communications -- a predecessor company of Time Warner Cable --in the Pittsburgh area. He took it and hasn't looked back since.
Rutledge spent 24 years with the organization, moving up the ranks locally, then regionally. He eventually became ...