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Michael Pandzik has been a director of Outdoor Channel Holdings since May 2007. Pandzik is widely recognized as the founding president of the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC), having served in this role from inception in late 1984 until 2005. Starting with just ten Midwestern cable operators and 110,000 subscribers, Pandzik began purchasing cable programming networks, equipment and services in large master contracts on behalf of the membership. Over a 21-year tenure as the NCTC leadership, he guided the co-op to become a cable powerhouse with the addition of 1,700 member companies and 8,000 franchised cable systems, embodying 10 million subscribers across the U.S. a subscriber base that today surpasses every multiple service operator but one. During this time, Pandzik also served on the board of C-SPAN for nearly 10 years, was inducted into the Cable Television Pioneers in 1992 and was listed as one of the Top-100 most influential personalities in the cable industry by CableFAX. Previously, Pandzik served HBO as director of new business development in the network New York City office from 1982 to 1984 and as regional director in the Kansas City sales and marketing office from 1978 to 1982. Prior to that, he was with Hallmark Cards as a TV director for the company Crown Center project in Kansas City. Pandzik holds a B.S. from the University of Nebraska and a M.S. from Kansas University.
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