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January 2001 Issue

Pulse: Cable Center Supports Oral History Program
By , Editor-in-Chief

Sporting not one but two Emmys from the National Academy of TV Arts and Sciences, Hubert (Hub) Schlafly (pictured left) welcomed CT’s Editor-in-Chief Rex Porter (right) to his home in Greenwich, Conn. Porter interviewed Schlafly as part of the Cable Center and Museum’s ongoing historical tapings.

Schlafly was one of the founders of Teleprompter Corp. in New York City in 1951. He won his first Emmy in 1992 for his work in "Broadband Communications." In 1999, Schlafly won a second Emmy for his development of the Lens Line Prompting System. Lens Line allows television speakers to look directly at the TV audience while reading from a prepared script.

The Cable Center and Museum has captured the oral histories of numerous pioneering engineers. Other luminaries interviewed by Porter include Jim Chiddix, chief technology officer of Time Warner Cable, Ron Cotton, first president of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), and Bill Riker, past president of SCTE and vice president of technology for the Cable Center and Museum.

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