Delivering Valuable Service

In an interview, Rocco Commisso, chairman and CEO of Mediacom Communications Corp, talked about his reaction to winning the distinguished vanguard award for leadership and his greatest career challenge. Commisso said he's very humbled by the honor, especially when considering that he grew up admiring the legendary cable entrepreneurs recognized since 1965 -- Alan Gerry, John Malone, Ralph Roberts, Chuck Dolan, Bill Bresnan, Amos Hostetter and Bill Daniels, who he believe was the first Vanguard honoree. Commisso's greatest challenge has been not only to form Mediacom in 1995 in the basement of his home with his very limited life savings, but to operate it as an independent, entrepreneurial cable company in a radically changed competitive environment all these years.