Ned Lamont’s cable business had an MTV connection

It was the early ‘80s and the rollout of cable TV was in its Wild Wild West era, driven by the white-hot MTV music video network. Ned Lamont, a young Harvard graduate, worked with Cablevision on its entry into Connecticut. He had his hand in other cable-related projects, too — including a report he filed on the industry in Kuwait. “That’s one of the things that prompted me to challenge Joe Lieberman many years later,” Lamont now says. He borrowed $250,000 from People’s Bank in Stamford, to buy a couple of “very small, beat-up private cable television systems in New York and Virginia.” “We fixed them up, made then functional,” Lamont recalls.

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