Cable Crafters Construction Inc. history

The company he founded in 1864 is now a multi-billion dollar construction firm and one of the largest and most diversified commercial construction companies in America.

The background image on this page is taken from the front cover of W.H. Russell’s The Atlantic Telegraph, and shows a section of the 1865 cable.

Added First World War photographs of the 1885 Reiss Links Sinclair Bay Cable House

In 1886, German inventor Karl Benz built the Benz Patent-Motorwagen.

John W., president of McCarthy since its incorporation in 1907, dies.

A fascination with ham radios must have seemed like a benign interest for a boy of 10 or 12 years growing up in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1920s.

Added new Cable Story - George Browne, CS The Cable, and a sweepstakes win (1929)

Clements was a renowned cable consulting engineer who started his 30-year career by building a system in Waterville, Wash., in 1950.

Stevenson built one of the first cable systems in the US in Arkansas in 1951 (in Fayetteville) and was deeply involved in the industry, including the founding of the NCTA, the Southern Cable Association and the Arkansas Cable TV Association.

His consulting engineer activity also began in 1952, and he served both cable operators and manufacturers when the industry was just starting to grow, both here and abroad.

Adler entered the cable industry in February 1953 when he and two partners established the Weston Television Cable Corp. to provide television reception in Lewis County, West Virginia.

Involved in the cable industry since its infancy, Crosby organized one of the first private entities to receive a license from the Federal Communications Commission to transmit television signals via microwave in 1954.

Fred Lieberman worked for Milton Shapp in the early days of Jerrold as a sales engineer in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and was transferred to Dallas in 1955 to work the Southeast region.

He was also a founding member and elected president of the Pennsylvania Cable Television Association in 1957.

Flinn bought the Tyler cable system from Merle Frasier and it became the biggest system in Texas by about 1960 and one of the largest in the country.

By 1964, Telesystems was one of the larger MSOs in the country, serving 32 communities.

During the 1966 NCTA Convention held at the Americana Hotel, in Miami Beach, Florida, 21 of our early entrepreneurs of the Cable TV industry met to become the first Cable Pioneers’ class.

Derek Glanvill becomes president and chief operating officer of McCarthy, replacing Mike Hurst who held the position since 1995.

McCarthy moves into its new Nebraska office in Omaha, having served the greater Nebraska community since 2001.

In 2002, Mike McCarthy sells his shares of the company to employees, making McCarthy one of the nation’s oldest, 100 percent employee-owned construction firms with majority ownership via an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).

McCarthy launches its Heart Hats community outreach program in 2005 to help make a real difference in the lives of those in the local community.

In 2012, the company celebrates 10 years of becoming 100 percent employee owned.

Engineering News-Record ranks McCarthy the #1 contractor in California in August 2013.

In 2015, more than $1.5 million and literally thousands of volunteer hours were dedicated to making a difference.