Leo Hindery Jr

Leo J. Hindery Jr., who ran Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI) when it was one of the nation’s top cable companies, helping to engineer its $59.4 billion sale to AT&T, and whose hard-charging spirit and passion for sports car racing culminated in a victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, died on Sept. 18 2025 in Zurich. He was 77. His wife, Patti Wheeler, confirmed the death, by medically assisted suicide. He had been experiencing severe pain from injuries caused when he was racing sports cars and from recent back surgery. He lived in Cornelius, N.C. Hindery spent years building the San Francisco-based InterMedia Partners into the ninth-largest cable company in the country, with 1.4 million subscribers. He sold the business in 1997 to TCI, which had 14 million subscribers. He then joined TCI, based in Englewood, Colo., as its president, hired by the cable pioneer John C. Malone, who stayed on as chairman. Leo Hindery, Jr. is Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners VII, LP, a New York-based media industry private equity fund which he founded in 2005 and which is a successor to six previous InterMedia investment funds that he formed beginning in 1988. The investments of those earlier funds were sold in 1998-1999. Until October 2004, Mr. Hindery was Chairman (and until May 2004 Chief Executive Officer) of The YES Network, the nation’s largest regional sports network which he founded in the summer of 2001 as the television home of the New York Yankees. He married Ms. Wheeler in 2005; she is a daughter of the racing promoter Humpy Wheeler, who died in August. In addition to her, Mr. Hindery is survived by a daughter, Robin Hindery Enan, from an earlier marriage, to Deborah Bailey, which ended in divorce; two stepchildren, Adele Marchant and Jackson Marchant; a brother, Michael; a sister, Mary Ann Seiwerath; and three grandchildren. His first marriage, to Mary Hermann, ended in divorce.