The cable guy with satellite roots, too: Charter's Carl Vogel may be the only MSO chief to bunk with Charlie Ergen.(In Profile)
Multichannel News, May, 2004 by Donohue, Steve
Carl Vogel is quite likely the only Top Five cable chief who has ever roomed with Charlie Ergen. Vogel, 46, the Charter Communications Inc. CEO and chair of this week's National Show in New Orleans, had the privilege of sharing hotel rooms with EchoStar Communications Corp. chairman (and cable industry nemesis) Ergen and other EchoStar colleagues when he held executive jobs (including president) at the direct-broadcast satellite TV provider in the mid 1990s.
Ergen famously preferred to spend money growing his satellite business and not on hotel rooms. "I bunked with everyone when I was traveling with EchoStar. My wife used to remind me it was like when I played baseball in college--we saw how many guys we could get in a room," Vogel said last...
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