Ralph Roberts, Comcast Founder, Dies
New York — Ralph Roberts, a cable pioneer who built Comcast from a small cable TV system in Mississippi into an entertainment and communications behemoth, has died. He was 95. Comcast said in a statement that Roberts died Thursday night in Philadelphia of natural causes. He was in his 40s when he began his career in the fledgling cable industry, with a $500,000 purchase of American Cable Systems, a company with 1,200 subscribers in...
