Posted by madcityradio.com on March 09, 2009 at 07:22:58:
Former local Charter exec dies
The Capital Times — 3/09/2009 7:04 am
Charter Communications announced that Mary L. White, the former president of the cable company's Madison-based Central Division, died Friday, Multichannel.com reported. She was 46.
White, who retired at the end of 2008, had breast cancer.
A Chicago native who played point guard for the Northern Illinois University women's basketball team, White got her start in cable out of college with an internship at Cablenet and Associates, marketing cable subscriptions.
That led to marketing positions at Tele-Communications Inc. and AT&T Broadband, where she also was an operating executive. Before joining Charter in 2005, she was senior vice president of Colorado operations at Comcast.
She joined Charter as head of Great Lakes operations before becoming Central Division president after a realignment of operations. She had overall responsibility for systems in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin with 1.4 million subscribers at the time of her appointment.
White and Karen Broach, then vice president and general manager of operations for southern Wisconsin, did an extensive interview with The Capital Times in early 2006. The story is here.
White was honored as a cable Wonder Woman by Multichannel News in 2008.
Her husband, Dale, and then-15-year-old daughter, Campbell, attended the Wonder Women luncheon in New York with her last March.
Campbell White and two friends recently created T-shirts with the slogan "Keep the Hope Alive" in tribute to her mother and sold to raise funds for the Madison chapter of the Susan G. Komen Foundation. The shirts are $16 each and more information about them can be obtained from Anita Lamont at Charter (anita.lamont@chartercom.com).