`The coolest job in cable'. (Back Talk).(Tom Rutledge of Cablevision Systems Corp.)(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, January, 2002 by Paskowski, Marianne

Tom Rutledge, Cablevision Systems Corp.'s new hired gun, says he has "the coolest job in cable." He joins the Bethpage, N.Y.based MSO this week as its president, New York metropolitan area.

Rutledge -- a 24-year veteran of Time Warner Cable and its president until last summer -- is going to a decidedly different gig in running the 3-million-subscriber Cablevision, a much smaller operation.

But to Rutledge, that's part of the beauty of the job. Cablevision, with its single headend in one DMA, has already accomplished what many other MSOs are still struggling to do: It's created the mother of all clusters.

Rutledge doesn't think you need to be an MSO on steroids, like the soon-to-merge AT&T Comcast Corp., to thrive in this brave new...

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