Founder Milton Shapp Type of business Manufacturing | Founded 1950 | |
Products Cable television equipment Headquarters Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | ||
Jerrold Electronics was an American provider of cable television equipment, including subscriber converter boxes, distribution network equipment (amplifiers, multitap outlets), and headend equipment in the United States.
History
The company was founded by future Pennsylvania governor Milton Jerrold Shapp in 1950. The company was one of the earliest pioneers of community antenna television systems (cable television). The company headquarters was located at 401 Walnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Shapp sold the company to General Instrument in 1967. However, the Jerrold brand name continued to be used on equipment into the 1990s.
In the late 1990s, the Jerrold name went out of use, and General Instrument merged with Motorola becoming the Motorola Connected Home Solutions division. Motorola Connected Home Solutions was acquired by ARRIS in 2012. The equipment was popular with many cable pirates by then and by 2005, most cable companies have discontinued use of Jerrold equipment in favor of digital cable.
There are a number of sources available covering the history of Jerrold and the cable industry as a whole.