Many cable execs happen to be published authors as well. Marc Etkind, gm of Destination America, is one them. His tome is called Or Not to Be, a collection of suicide notes by famous people such as Kurt Cobain, Vincent Van Gogh, Diane Arbus, Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf. Know what else? He was a bird warden in college and lived on an island with 10,000 terns, as part of the “Falkner Island Tern Project.”

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It’s no easy task filling the shoes of someone who spent nearly five decades in the cable world. That’s the situation Jason Brown inherited when he became the head of Charter’s ad sales unit Spectrum Reach

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