Denver Post profiles the Cable Center

Broadband Reports profiled an interview in last Saturday's Denver Post with Larry Satkowiak the CEO of the Cable Center in Denver. The Cable Center is an educational non-profit and museum that showcases the programming technological achievements that have been developed by the cable industry.

Full disclosure: I currently serve as the chairman of the Cable Center's Board of Directors.

Here's how Larry describes the Cable Center:

The Cable Center is an educational nonprofit and museum that brings higher education to the cable industry. We explore things together, like programming and technology.

The cable pioneers really wanted a place that can show off the contributions cable has made in society. That is one of the big parts of our mission.

Cable has really changed the way we're entertained and receive our news. The telephone company gave you the telephone modem at 300-baud (speed). Cable gave you the cable modem, which allowed broadband technology to come about and allowed this place to come alive. This place before 2001 would have probably been an old, stodgy museum.

One of the major programs we run is with C-SPAN, using different applications of technology, where we're linking three classes together to our instructor in Washington, D.C. There's no one else in the country doing anything like that. Because of our unique relationship with C-SPAN, every week they're able to bring in a guest that knows the politics of D.C. So Hillary Clinton was one of our guest speakers before she ran for president and Sen. John Kerry.

I think you'll enjoy reading Larry's interview about the Cable Center and the founding of the Center by the cable industry's pioneers. But if you want to take a look inside the Center without visiting Denver, I recommend taking a look at the Cable Center's web site.

At the web site, you can view the Center's extensive collection of cable technology - starting with the 1950's and moving forward to the present. There are a set of oral histories from a number of cable industry leaders that you can view or listen. I don't have one yet but I'm scheduled to make one soon.  And you can view some of the 70,000 photographs in the Center's collection.

Of course, if you're visiting the Denver area, I suggest paying a visit to the Center to see it all in person.