They compromised on Denver. It was one of the few communities out West with a direct flight back East, where the banks were. Convenient and clean, Denver would emerge soon as the capital of cable. Equipment suppliers made stops in Denver. Bill Daniels, the biggest broker in the business, was based there. So were other cable operators. Something about the Western city came to define the spirit of these pole climbers, in an era when individual men, not conglomerates, reigned sovereign over an industry. So in 1965, TCI moved to Denver to play with the big boys.
