Terry Johnson

Terry W. Johnson was a founder of Cablevision and co-founder of Masada Resource Group.

Johnson graduated from the Georgia Technical Institute in Atlanta with a degree in engineering, and worked for NASA. He moved into the cable television business in the 1970s. In partnership with Daryl Harms he expanded into cellular communications and home security.

Johnson brought his businesses together under the name "Masada", a reference to the plateau overlooking the Judean desert where, according to Josephus, a group of Jewish zealots committed mass suicide rather than submit to capture and enslavement by Roman soldiers in 73 CE.

Johnson succeeded Hank Appleton as president and CEO of the Bessemer-based Trillion Digital Communications in July 2001.