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

Upon hearing the news, David Sarnoff supposedly remarked, " I did not kill Armstrong.

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.

In the second, an example of a " permissions culture ", he describes how David Sarnoff, president of RCA, managed to persuade the government to delay the deployment of the rival wideband FM radio, invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.

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.

Sarnoff Labs was put on a five-year plan whereby GE would fund all the labs ' activities for the first year, then reduce its support to near zero after the fifth year.

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.

Sarnoff backed out at first due to financial reasons, but agreed in July 1939 to make the equipment so long as the Disneys could hold down the estimated $ 200, 000 in costs.

Also interred within Kensico Cemetery and Gate of Heaven Cemetery are the big band leader Tommy Dorsey ; the New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno ; the former CBS News president Fred Friendly ; the legendary New York Yankees star Lou Gehrig ; the film star and comedian Danny Kaye ; the virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor, Sergei Rachmaninoff ; the author Ayn Rand ; NBC founder David Sarnoff ; and the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America, James E. West.

: 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.

Sarnoff devoted considerable resources to create an orchestra of the first rank for NBC.

Sarnoff also demonstrated the first use of radio on a railroad line, the Lackawanna Railroad Company's link between Binghamton, New York, and Scranton, Pennsylvania ; and permitted and observed Edwin Armstrong's demonstration of his regenerative receiver at the Marconi station at Belmar, New Jersey.

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.

Mrs. Sarnoff soon learned that, in addition to a wife's more conventional roles, she also became the first person to hear her husband's new ideas as radio and television became integral to American home life.

Cable traffic in Hawaii was not intercepted due to legal concerns until David Sarnoff of RCA agreed to allow it during a visit to Hawaii the first week of December 1941.

Andrew Daniel Divoff (, correctly transcribed as Divov ) ( born July 2, 1955 ) is a Venezuelan film and television actor, best known for playing the evil Djinn in the two first Wishmaster films and the villains Cherry Ganz in Another 48 Hrs., Boris Bazylev in Air Force One, Ivan Sarnoff in CSI: Miami and Mikhail Bakunin in Lost.

The first ceremony in 1984 celebrated the careers of Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Paddy Chayefsky, Norman Lear, Edward R. Murrow, William S. Paley and David Sarnoff.

David Sarnoff was determined to lead his company in pioneering the medium and met with Westinghouse engineer Vladimir Zworykin in 1928.

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.

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.

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

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

Regarding the Titanic story, some modern media historians question whether Sarnoff was at the telegraph key at all.

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.

In 1929, Sarnoff engineered the purchase of the Victor Talking Machine Company, the nation's largest manufacturer of records and phonographs, merging radio-phonograph production at Victor's large manufacturing facility in Camden, New Jersey.

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

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.

* " David Sarnoff of RCA Is Dead ; Visionary Broadcast Pioneer ; David Sarnoff of RCA, the Visionary Broadcasting Pioneer, Is Dead Here at 80 ," New York Times.

* " Pushing Technology: David Sarnoff and Wireless Communications ,," paper presented at 2001 IEEE Conference on the History of Telecommunications

Salomon left the Navy in 1948 and eventually discussed his idea of a documentary series with one of his Harvard classmates, Robert Sarnoff, a rising executive at NBC television and the son of David Sarnoff, the chairman of RCA ( then the owner of NBC ).

She is interred with Sarnoff at Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.

Eighteen months later, in 1953 and at the age of 23, she moved to New York City and was a publicist for the next ten years, initially for David Sarnoff at RCA, then at NBC writing press releases and soap opera synopses, and then for the United States Steel Hour at CBS.

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 ).

At the time Sarnoff was a young executive with an interest in new technologies, including radio broadcasting.

While Sarnoff was understandably impressed with Armstrong's FM system, he also understood that it was not compatible with his own AM empire.

Sarnoff came to regard FM as a threat and refused to support it any further.

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.

* 1891 – David Sarnoff, Russian-born broadcast pioneer ( d. 1971 )

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

* Susan Kiss Sarnoff, Sanctified Snake Oil: The Effect of Junk Science on Public Policy, 2001.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

This required Sarnoff Labs to change its business model to become an industrial contract research facility.

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.

** David Sarnoff, Radio and television pioneer ( b. 1891 )

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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.