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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

: 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.

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.

David Sarnoff (,, February 27, 1891 – December 12, 1971 ) was a Russian-born American businessman and pioneer of American radio and television.

Named a Reserve Brigadier General of the Signal Corps in 1945, Sarnoff thereafter was widely known as " The General.

David Sarnoff was born in Uzlyany, a small town in Belarus, to Abraham and Leah Sarnoff.

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

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

To help cover the cost of developing and building Space Mountain, Card Walker, the CEO of Walt Disney Productions, convinced RCA chairman Robert Sarnoff to sponsor the new attraction ; RCA was contracted by Disney to provide the communications hardware for the Walt Disney World Resort, and their contract stated that if Disney presented an attraction of interest, RCA would provide USD $ 10 million to support it.

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.

* February 27 – David Sarnoff, Russian-born American broadcasting pioneer ( d. 1971 )

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.

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 ).

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.

By comparison, David Sarnoff has been considered by some, arguably and perhaps mistakenly, as " the prescient prophet of broadcasting who predicted the medium's rise in 1915 ", referring to his radio music box concept.

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.

She and the curator of Sarnoff's papers found a previously mis-filed 1916 memo that did mention Sarnoff and a " radio music box scheme " ( the word " scheme " in 1916 usually meant a plan ); Benjamin wrote a follow-up article about Sarnoff and the radio music box in 2002.

Over the next two years Sarnoff earned promotions to chief inspector and contracts manager for a company whose revenues swelled after Congress passed legislation mandating continuous staffing of commercial shipboard radio stations.

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.

Unlike many who were involved with early radio communications, viewing radio as point-to-point, Sarnoff saw the potential of radio as point-to-mass.

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.

At the onset of WWII, Sarnoff served on Eisenhower's communications staff, arranging expanded radio circuits for NBC to transmit news from the invasion of France in June 1944.

In France, Sarnoff arranged for the restoration of the Radio France station in Paris that the Germans destroyed and oversaw the construction of a radio transmitter powerful enough to reach all of the allied forces in Europe, called Radio Free Europe.

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.

* Sarnoff was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in the radio division in 1977.

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.

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

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 ).

Over the next Sarnoff rose from office boy to commercial manager of the company, learning about the technology and the business of electronic communications on the job and in libraries.

Nancy Sarnoff of the Houston Chronicle said in 2010 that the remaining flower shops told her that the establishment of the line helped cause several of their competitors to go out of business.