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William G. Jackson, Class of 1958


After graduation Bill Jackson went to work for NWR Electronics Corporation, an electronic equipment business serving the upper mid-west. In 1971 he founded Satellite Cable TV a family-owned cable-television business in the Upper Peninsula. The business grew undergoing several name changes and spreading across the United States until finally, in 1983, it became Cable America Corporation. In 1998 Cable America operated cable TV systems from Michigan to Alabama and from New Hampshire to California, in a total of ten states and had become one of the largest multiple system operators in the United States. Bill is President and CEO of Cable America Corporation.