
Before streaming made distribution look effortless, Anne E. Droste spent decades persuading gatekeepers, building unlikely partnerships and turning small networks into channels millions of homes could actually watch.

Across HBO, Disney, NTL and Rogers Cable, Steven Wagner spent three decades turning new communications infrastructure into products people could actually choose, buy and understand.
For 27 years, Insight Communications wired the parts of the Midwest the coastal giants ignored - then sold the whole thing to Time Warner Cable for about $3 billion.