Timeline: the life and times of a cable king

March 7, 1941: John Malone is born in Milford, Connecticut in the US. His great-grandfather had left Co Cork during the Famine and married a woman with German heritage on the east coast of the US.

1959: graduates from Hopkins School in New Haven, Connecticut.

1963: graduates from Yale University with a BA in electrical engineering and economics. That same year, begins working in economic planning and research and development at Bell Telephone ...