President/CEO & Co-Founder
BOYCOM Cablevision, Inc.
Patricia Jo Boyers is President/CEO & Co-Founder of BOYCOM Cablevision, Inc. She has served in this capacity since 2008. Her previous position was as Executive VP/CFO since the inception of the company in 1992. Boyers is also President and 100% owner of Boyers Communications, Inc., a Missouri designated DBE in the business of underground cable construction and custom road boring since 1982.
Patty has served on the board of directors for ACA Connects since April 16, 2007. She is currently serving her fifth year as Chairman. Boyers was recently re-elected to an unprecedented third-two year term, making her the longest serving Chairman of ACA Connects, and only the second woman in the Association’s 32 year history.
She served on the board of the Greater Poplar Bluff Area Chamber of Commerce. She also served, for over 21 years on the U.S. Military Academy Review Board for the 8th US Congressional District; the last five years were served as chairman. She served on the board of the Leadership Council of Missouri’s NFIB and also served for six years as Founding Chairman of the board of directors of the Pike Creek Common Sewer District in Butler County, serving from 1996 to 2003. During this time, Boyers also served as Vice President of the Missouri Association of Sewer Districts, earning her the esteemed title of “Sewer Queen” and the award of her Golden Shovel.
Patty was inducted into the 2015 Class of Cable TV Pioneers during their 49th annual banquet in Chicago. The highlight of her career was her Induction into the Cable Hall of Fame on September 15, 2022 at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in NYC. She is only the 25th woman to ever have been inducted and only the second Missourian.
Boyers has been awarded Cablefax’s esteemed “Top 100 Players” Award consistently every year since 2015; making this award nine years in a row. Cablefax has also recognized Boyers as one of their “MOST POWERFUL WOMEN” since 2013, a series of awards that she holds especially dear. In 2019, Cablefax’s initiated a new award called the “Wave Maker” award. Boyers was the recipient of this prestigious award in its inaugural year.
In 2023 Patty was awarded by Missouri Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe, his “Lieutenant Governor’s Women of Achievement” Award. This was also the inaugural year for this honor.
She is currently serving an appointed term to the FCC’s CEDC, “Communications Equity & Diversity Council, a position that she takes very seriously, not only as a rare woman on the operator side of the house, but as a lone voice for the Independent, Rural Operators that built this industry and on whose shoulders rests the foundation that we all fondly refer to as the “Cable Business”.
Her activities in her community range from president of the PTA to life member in the NRA. Her faith and service to her church is evident in the fact that she has taught the Friendship Sunday School class at First Baptist Church in Poplar Bluff for over 24 years. Boyers attended Three Rivers Community College and the University of Missouri and has more than 46 years of experience in the cable industry.
BOYCOM is a family-owned, first generation, incumbent MSO that provides video, telephone and high speed broadband internet service in the most remote rural portions of five counties in Southeast Missouri.
BOYCOM was founded in 1992 by Steven D. & Patricia Jo Boyers after 15 years in the underground telecommunication construction business. They are truly a “Mom & Pop”, in the purest sense of the term! Steve’s entrepreneurial spirit and Patty’s tenacity has served them well. BOYCOM is celebrating their 32nd Anniversary this year and haven’t changed their name once! Brains, balls & borrowed money has been their montra and they’re not changing it now!
In their spare time, the Boyers’ raise black angus cattle and have around a 165 head cow/calf operation on their “ranch” which is fondly referred to as the “BOYEROSA!”
The crowning jewel for her is her family. Her greatest accomplishment is her son, Matthew! Most folks never get to meet their hero-she raised hers! Matthew and his beautiful wife, Amber, have three glorious daughters; Jillian, Evelyn and Vivianne. They reside in Savannah, GA where Matthew is actively serving our country in the 75th RGR RGT.
Grandchildren are God’s gifts for not killing your kids!
God bless us EVERYONE!
