From 1988 to January 2011, the Lab was called Sarnoff Corporation, a subsidiary of SRI International, after which it was fully integrated into SRI.

RCA Laboratories was transferred to SRI International as the David Sarnoff Research Center, subsequently renamed Sarnoff Corporation.

Although Princeton is a " college town ", there are other important institutions in the area, including the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary, Educational Testing Service ( ETS ), Opinion Research Corporation, Siemens Corporate Research, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Sarnoff Corporation, FMC Corporation, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Amrep, Church and Dwight, Berlitz International, and Dow Jones & Company.

When Owen D. Young of the General Electric Company arranged the purchase of American Marconi and turned it into the Radio Corporation of America, a radio patent monopoly, Sarnoff realized his dream and revived his proposal in a lengthy memo on the company's business and prospects.

* Sarnoff Corporation

A dedication ceremony on the Oglethorpe University campus, led by David Sarnoff of Radio Corporation of America occurred in May, 1938.

It consisted of AT & T, General Instrument Corporation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Philips Consumer Electronics, David Sarnoff Research Center, Thomson Consumer Electronics, and Zenith Electronics Corporation.

The Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ), led by David Sarnoff, was looking for ways to exploit the cinema sound patents, newly trademarked RCA Photophone, owned by its parent company, General Electric.

In October, through a set of stock transfers, RCA gained control of both FBO and the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater chain ; merging them into a single venture, it created the Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation, Sarnoff chairing the board.

In 1934 Armstrong began working for RCA at the request of the president of RCA, David Sarnoff.

Although they denied wrongdoing, David Sarnoff and RCA managed to get the FCC to move the FM radio spectrum from 42-50 MHz, to 88-108 MHz, while getting new low-powered community television stations allocated to a new Channel 1 in the 44-50 MHz range.

The first chief executive officer of RCA was Owen D. Young ; David Sarnoff became its general manager.

David Sarnoff with the first RCA videotape recorder, 1954.

David Sarnoff, whose ambition and business acumen had helped RCA become one of the world's largest companies, turned the company over to his son Robert in 1970.

As Rolf Wiggershaus recounts in The Frankfurt School, Its History, Theories and Political Significance ( MIT 1995 ), Lazarsfeld was the director of a project, funded and inspired by David Sarnoff ( the head of RCA ), to discover both the sort of music that listeners of radio liked and ways to improve their " taste ", so that RCA could profitably air more classical music.

Since NBC was the broadcast arm of radio set manufacturer RCA, its chief David Sarnoff approached his decisions as both a broadcaster and as a hardware executive ; NBC's affiliates had the latest RCA equipment, and were often the best-established stations, or were on " clear channel " frequencies.

One such, investment bank Dillon, Read made an offer of $ 7. 5 million, but Woods and RCA chief David Sarnoff held firm at $ 8 million.

However, the FCC was influenced by RCA chairman David Sarnoff, who had the covert goal of disrupting the successful FM network that Edwin Armstrong had established on the old band.

The Disney brothers contacted David Sarnoff of RCA regarding the manufacture of a new system that would " create the illusion that the actual symphony orchestra is playing in the theater ".

When the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company ( including Columbia's subsidiary label Parlophone ) in 1931, the new Anglo-American group was incorporated as Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. At this point RCA had a majority shareholding in the new company, giving RCA chair David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board.

Michael Ettenberg, a researcher and later Vice President at RCA Laboratories ' David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, New Jersey, devised a solution.

: David Sarnoff, the president of RCA who had first proposed the " radio music box " in 1916 so that listeners might enjoy " concerts, lectures, music, recitals ," felt that the medium was failing to do this.

RCA chairman David Sarnoff later charged that the NPA's order had come " out of a situation artificially created by one company to solve its own perplexing problems " because CBS had been unsuccessful in its color venture.

Radio City Music Hall was a project of Rockefeller ; Samuel Roxy Rothafel, who previously opened the Roxy Theatre in 1927 ; and RCA chairman David Sarnoff.

This gave RCA head David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board.

Four years later, Sarnoff became president of RCA.

Sarnoff was sometimes inaccurately referred to later in his career as the founder of both RCA and NBC, but he was in fact neither.

When Sarnoff was put in charge of radio broadcasting at RCA, he soon recognized the potential for television, i. e., the combination of motion pictures with electronic transmission.

This was until FM broadcasting radio re-emerged in the 1960s ( following FM's initial appearance and disappearance during the 1930s and 1940s-see Yankee Network for more details on early FM broadcasting and a tragic legacy to the Sarnoff story ).

Sarnoff retired in 1970, at the age of 79, and died the following year, aged 80.

Recognition of Kilby ’ s outstanding achievements have been made by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers ( IEEE ), including the election to IEEE Fellow in 1966, the IEEE David Sarnoff Award in 1966, co-recipient of the first IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award in 1978, the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984 and the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1986.

The second 15-minute pilot, " Gumby Goes to the Moon ", was initially rejected by NBC executive Thomas Warren Sarnoff.

The incorporation of the assets of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America ( including David Sarnoff ,) the Pan-American Telegraph Company, and those already controlled by the United States Navy led to a new publicly held company formed by General Electric ( which owned a controlling interest ) on 17 October 1919.

Robert Sarnoff was ousted in a 1975 boardroom coup by Anthony Conrad, who resigned a year later after he admitted failing to file income tax returns for six years.

Acquired by Intel in 1988 from RCA's Sarnoff Research Labs, DVI never caught on.

* The General, a book by Kenneth Bilby on David Sarnoff

These latter uses were brought about after 1920 by business entrepreneurs such as David Sarnoff, who created the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ), and William S. Paley, who built Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS ).

The NBC Symphony Orchestra was a radio orchestra established by David Sarnoff of the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) especially for conductor Arturo Toscanini.

The show, hosted by NBC announcer Ben Grauer, who had also hosted many of the original Toscanini broadcasts, featured interviews with members of the conductor's family, as well as musicians of the NBC Symphony, David Sarnoff, and noted classical musicians who had worked with the conductor, such as Giovanni Martinelli.

In 1906 his father became incapacitated by tuberculosis, and at age 15 Sarnoff went to work to support the family.

Learning early the value of self-promotion and publicity, Sarnoff falsely advanced himself both as the sole hero who stayed by his telegraph key for three days to receive information on the Titanic < nowiki ></ nowiki >' s survivors and as the prescient prophet of broadcasting who predicted the medium's rise in 1916.

As the profile done for the Museum of Broadcast Communications correctly points out, by the time of the Titanic disaster in 1912, Sarnoff was in management, and no longer a telegrapher ; plus, the event occurred on a Sunday, when the store would have been closed.

Sarnoff opted to fund Zworkyin's research, most likely well-aware that Zworykin, in his enthusiasm, had underestimated the scope of his television effort by orders of magnitude in cost and several years in duration.

The first television broadcast aired was the dedication of the RCA pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fairgrounds and was introduced by Sarnoff himself.

CBS had their electro-mechanical color television system approved by the FCC on October 10, 1950, however Sarnoff filed an unsuccessful suit in the United States district court to suspend that ruling.

According to Baer's 2005 autobiography, Sarnoff called a vice president at NBC at 6 A. M. and ordered him to find Baer " a job by 9 o ' clock " that same morning.

* Arturo Toscanini, the conductor of the NBC Symphony Orchestra recruited by David Sarnoff to NBC

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Having developed the prototype of the receiver by December, Zworykin met David Sarnoff, who eventually hired him and put him in charge of television development for RCA at their newly established laboratories in Camden, New Jersey.

After lobbying by RCA President David Sarnoff and Paley in Washington, D. C., the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) approved the RCA color system as the standard, and CBS sold the patents to its system to foreign broadcasters as PAL SECAM.