JC Sparkman, 87 and a longtime cable entrepreneur, died Thursday, said representatives of Liberty Global, where Sparkman was on the board. After working for an Idaho equipment distributor that also built cable systems, he joined cable gearmaker Jerrold Electronics. In…
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1969, Tele-Communications Inc. founder Bob Magness hired Sparkman to run TCI's operations, when it had 56,000 customers. By his retirement, TCI had some 19 million subscribers, and then was bought by AT&T (and later by Comcast). Sparkman was on other corporate boards and was a 2015 Cable TV Hall of Fame inductee. He's survived by his wife, two daughters and a son, his sister, and by several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Donations in his memory can go to the JC and Dolores Sparkman Cancer Fund, Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation.