RCA President David Sarnoff at the dedication ceremony for the RCA Building at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, the debut of television broadcasting. Photo: Getty Images/Bettman SMPTE has named ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas W. Sarnoff, who had a six-decade career at NBC as the youngest son of RCA/NBC media mogul David Sarnoff, has died. He was ...

THE FOOTE FILES (CBSDFW.COM) — Some 108 years ago, a major event (and one that was tragic) took place that cost the lives of more than 1,500 people. And radio and telegraph played a significant role ...

Date: April 2, 1990 Location: WEST WINDSOR Title: The Deal that Saved the Sarnoff Center Author: George M. Taber Subject: After the GE-RCA merger, the labs seemed doomed until a win-win solution was ...

In November 1916, E.J. Nally, vice president of the American division of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, received an unusual memo from one of his young assistants. The memo depicted a future ...

Editor’s Note: This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CTA (Consumer Technology Association), which started out as the RMA (Radio Manufacturers Association). This is the second in ...

William S. Paley, chairman of the board of CBS, last week said that he would “always think of David Sarnoff as broadcasting’s most imaginative prophet.” Paley, admitting that he has “the scars to ...