Cable TV Executive Sanford Levine Dies
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Sanford N. Levine, who joined Kaufman & Broad Inc. when that Los Angeles-based home construction firm entered the cable television industry in 1965, is dead of heart failure. He was 55 when he died April 15.
Levine was founding president of Nation Wide Cablevision Inc., a subsidiary of Kaufman & Broad, and during his tenure it became one of the two largest cable companies in the nation before its merger into Tele-Communications Inc. in 1971. Levine was a director of Tele-Communications until 1980.
Levine, a founding patron of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, is survived by his wife, Marsha, his father and two sisters.
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