CHANCE LED BRITT TO CAREER IN CABLE TV.(Special Report: Kaitz Dinner)(Glenn Britt awarded Diversity Champion by Walter Kaitz Foundation )

TelevisionWeek, September, 2005 by Hall, Lee

Byline: Lee Hall Special to TelevisionWeek A career in the cable business came almost as an afterthought for Glenn Britt, chairman and CEO of Time Warner Cable. A magna cum laude graduate in economics from Dartmouth College, he went on to the school's prestigious Amos Tuck School of Business, where he earned a master's of business administration, a degree he thought might be better suited for a job in the banking industry or Wall Street.

"But I always had an interest in media and television and I wound up kind of on the spur of the moment interviewing with Time Inc., which was then [in 1972] mostly a magazine company that was just starting to dabble in cable television,'' he said. A daylong series of interviews led to a job in the controller's...

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