Gerald Dash, Cable TV pioneer, 68
From Multichannel News, 9/3/2009
Gerald Dash, whose long cable career began with early franchising efforts and selling HBO subscriptions, died on Aug. 30 at his home in Tucson, Ariz., of a terminal illness, family members said. He was 68.
Inducted into the Cable Television Pioneers in 2005, when he was a senior VP of training at RCH Cable Outsourcing Services, Dash began his cable career selling door to door. "That was the real key to me," he recalled in 2005, adding: "There's never been a dull day, even though sales people have never really been recognized."