Washington Cable was incorporated in the District of Columbia in 1979. Our principal business is private cable, the reception and distribution of television programming delivered via satellite, microwave and other means, to apartment buildings, offices and government agencies in the Washington metropolitan area.
Washington Cable's chief executive officer, Dr. Perry Klein has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in communications and navigation satellites. He has published widely in these fields, and had two patents for navigation satellite systems. For ten years, he designed, developed, tested, launched, and operated several OSCAR communications satellites as Founding President and General Manager of AMSAT, the international Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. Before that, for four years he was an engineer with the technical staff at Communications Satellite Corporation and COMSAT Labs.
Joseph Klein, General Manager since 1982, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan, and has a Master's from Harvard. He was formerly business manager of the Aegis School in upstate New York, where he was responsible for computer operations, program development, financial planning and marketing.