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.

Notables attending included: New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey ; violinist Fritz Kreisler ; James A. Farley ; Metropolitan Opera manager Rudolph Bing ; NBC chairman David Sarnoff ; CBS chairman William S. Paley ; Broadway composer Richard Rodgers ; and Hollywood mogul Louis B. Mayer.

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.

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

Sarnoff and Armstrong first met at a boxing match involving Jack Dempsey in 1920.

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.

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

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

* 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.

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.

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

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

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

Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

It was a fine broody hen, white, with a maternal eye and a striking abundance of feathers in the under region of the abdomen.

His maternal grandfather joined the Army at 14 and was a mounted messenger for George Washington.

J. J. Bachofen advocated that Athena was originally a maternal figure stable in her security and poise but was caught up and perverted by a patriarchal society ; this was especially the case in Athens.

Antoninus ’ father and paternal grandfather died when he was young and he was raised by Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, reputed by contemporaries to be a man of integrity and culture and a friend of Pliny the Younger.

Born into an old, wealthy equestrian branch of the Plebeian Octavii family, Augustus was adopted posthumously by his maternal great-uncle Gaius Julius Caesar in 44 BC following Caesar's assassination.

After this deed he fled to Talmai, the king of Geshur () ( see also or ), his maternal grandfather, and it was not until three years later that he was fully reinstated in his father's favour and finally returned to Jerusalem.

Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).

She was the second granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, sister-in-law, stepdaughter and daughter-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, mother of the Emperor Caligula, maternal second cousin and sister-in-law of the Emperor Claudius and the maternal grandmother of the Emperor Nero.

With her siblings, Agrippina was raised in Rome by her maternal grandfather and maternal step-grandmother Livia Drusilla.

Antonia Minor was the second daughter born to Octavia Minor and triumvir Mark Antony, hence Antonia ’ s maternal uncle was Augustus.

Apart from being the late maternal grandmother of Nero, she was the late paternal grandmother of Princess Julia Drusilla, the child of Caligula.

In 39, Agrippina and Livilla, with their maternal cousin, Drusilla's widower Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, were involved in a failed plot to murder Caligula, a plot known as the Plot of the Three Daggers, which was to make Lepidus the new emperor.

In the months leading up to her marriage to Claudius, Agrippina's maternal second cousin, the praetor Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus, was betrothed to Claudius ’ daughter Claudia Octavia.

Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus in 50 was adopted by his great maternal uncle and stepfather.

Some modern historians theorize that Nero's decision to kill Agrippina was prompted by her plotting to set Gaius Rubellius Plautus ( Nero's maternal second cousin ) or Britannicus ( Claudius ' biological son ) on the throne.

His mother Julia Avita Mamaea was the second daughter of Julia Maesa and Syrian noble Julius Avitus and maternal aunt of Emperor Elagabalus.