Alan Gerry

[4] After high school, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps where he was placed in the electronics program[1] and afterward he studied television repair on the G.I.

[5] Concerned with the poor reception in his hometown, which impacted television sales due to the mountainous terrain, he installed antennas on the top of many of the surrounding mountains in order to provide reception to the people who lived in the valleys or lived on the hillsides not facing New York City.

[1] In the early 1970s, he bought out his original partners and expanded into Pennsylvania and Massachusetts[4] renaming the company Cablevision Industries.

[1] In the early 1980s, he installed the East Coast's first high-powered microwave delivery system, creating 100,000 house sub-clusters.

Gerry endowed a chair of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School,[8] established the Paul Gerry Dialysis Center in Sayre, Pennsylvania, funded the addition of a wing on his local hospital, and is involved in a program at Boston University to find a cure for amyloidosis.