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Peter Olafson. PETER OLAFSON BACKGROUND Peter Olafson has just taken a position
as the general manager for Cable King Television (CKV) of St. Paul Minnesota. ...
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PETER OLAFSON
BACKGROUND
Peter Olafson has just taken a position as the general manager for Cable King Television (CKV) of St. Paul Minnesota. CKV has been in existence for the past four years. The company is by UniComm of Beverly Hills California and a local St. Paul businessman, 85%-15% respectively. The first three years of CTV were spent securing state, federal, and local franchises and permission to operate in the St. Paul area. When Olafson arrived, CTV had six employees working on the design, preparation, and initial construction of the cable system.
CTV's parent company, UniComm, was founded by William Jurgens. Jurgens built UniComm up from a small west coast cable system to $25 million company that now ranks within the top 20 firms in the nation. Jurgens is known as tough business man, a self made man who aggressiveness and ability brought him considerable success.
Peter Olafson has just graduated with his MBA; his credentials include BS in electrical engineering from MIT and an MS in communications engineering from the University of Minnesota. He also worked his way up to a captain in the United States Army Signal Corps. Olafson took a job with CTV because he saw cable television as a field with great growth, opportunity, and expansion since it was primarily dominated by private entrepreneurs. When Olafson was given the job offer from Jurgens, Olafson was informed that the general manager assignment at St. Paul would be challenging. The system was having a number of serious start-up problems; however, Jurgens noted the St. Paul-Minneapolis market had the possibility of being a very profitable market. Olafson has no prior cable television experience however since he is assuming he is to work under Jurgens, he can learn from him.
The issues Olafson faces are varied. When he reports to work he is not reporting to Jurgens, he is reporting to Jim Harvey. Harvey is the director of budgets and plans...
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