ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, November 17, 1996 TAG: 9611180083
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: DENVER
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
Bob Magness, who ran a tiny cable television company out of his kitchen before building Tele-Communications Inc. into the nation's largest cable provider, has died of cancer. He was 72.
Magness, a billionaire listed by Forbes Magazine as Colorado's second-richest businessman, died at the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville late Friday. He had been undergoing chemotherapy for lymphoma.
Magness was ``a truly remarkable person who built a company and an industry from the ground floor up,'' said TCI President John Malone, who was hired by Magness in 1972.
- Associated Press
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