Marcus Cable

Marcus Cable Company

Industry	Cable television
Fate	Merged with Charter Communications
Successor	Charter Communications
Founded	1982
Defunct	1999
Headquarters	Dallas, Texas, USA
Key people	Jeffrey A. Marcus

Marcus Cable Company was an American cable television provider headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and founded by Jeffrey A. Marcus and the Milwaukee-based Marcus Corporation. It was the nation's largest closely held cable-television company and the ninth largest over all, with 1.1 million customers in 18 states, with its principal markets in Wisconsin, southern California, Alabama, Indiana, Tennessee, and Fort Worth, Texas. In April 1998, entrepreneur Paul Allen purchased Marcus Cable for $2.775 billion through his investment arm Vulcan Ventures. In February 1999, Marcus Cable was merged with Vulcan's Charter Communications.

Cable, satellite, and other specialty television providers in the United States

Defunct cable TV

¹ - Organization still in operation, but no longer offers cable or internet as part of its services.

Defunct satellite

Defunct IPTV

Defunct terrestrial

USDTV

See also

Radio spectrum pollution

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