Ralph J. Roberts, 95, the soft-spoken visionary who in 1963 bought a tiny subscriber TV system in Tupelo, Miss., and built it into Comcast, the nation's leading cable corporation, has died. Mr. Roberts had been in declining health lately. . At the time of his death, Mr. Roberts was past president and chairman emeritus of the public company, headquartered in its own building on John F. Kennedy Boulevard. He was chairman of the board from 1969 to 2002. In 1990, at age 70 and after 21 years at the helm, he handed off the presidency to his son, Brian L. Roberts, then 30, in a rare successful intergenerational transfer of power. "His legacy is that he left a big, vibrant company, that is led...
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