David Sarnoff

As Farnsworth was having his idea, virtually at the same time, within a matter of months, was the first time presidential election returns had been broadcast over the radio.

David Sarnoff, who began in the mailroom and worked his way up to become the chairman of RCA, the Radio Corporation of America, a man who was also deeply interested in the future of television.

Sarnoff, in many ways, is the archetype of the American immigrant success story.

He came to America from Russia at the age of nine in 1900.

Let's pick up where we last left

off.

The 1939 World's Fair, where RCA in general and David Sarnoff in particular intended to raise the curtain on television.

Now, at that point...

I already alluded to Phil Rosenthal's quote about Norman Lear as this decisive figure.

He was among the first class of inductees into the Television Hall of Fame in the mid to late 70s, I think, with people like Ed Murrow and Sarnoff of NBC and so forth.

I think Jack Benny, maybe, loose steel ball.

His mother, when she heard the news, she, according to Lear, said, oh, well, if that's their decision, who am I to argue? Which is kind of a neat way to also contextualize and sort of challenge the great man of history narrative.

Armstrong once climbed a radio tower on the corporate headquarters building and did handstands on the large globe on top in order to impress Marion.

He loved heights and was temporarily banned from the property by the head of RCA, David Sarnoff.

Sarnoff was annoyed at what he termed damn fool stunts.

Sarnoff befriended Armstrong and had earlier introduced the inventor to his secretary, Marion, whom Armstrong would later marry.

Casualties are believed to be heavy, and there are reports of a number of residential areas badly battered by the raids.

David Sarnoff, an immigrant messenger boy who rose to become head of the giant RCA Corporation, died today at his home in New York City following a long illness.

He was 80 years old.

Sarnoff organized at the National Broadcasting Company in 1926 and headed RCA for more than three decades.

But the AM radio.

So what happened with that is you have David Sarnoff.

They're buying everybody.

There was just localized, small, localized, you know.

well you know so basically you have the folk um you have this lull you have the culling of this is where you see unfortunately this cultural engineering process And, you know, that radio, hopefully Brett, my article, we have to get back on that, but the AM radio.

So what happened with that is you have David Sarnoff, they're buying everybody.

There was just localized, small, localized, you know, and a lot of local culture will groups you know germans or italians or whatever um and you know and then suddenly david sarna they take over the patents and suddenly you can't make your own home radio stations or else if you do they put in these huge transmission towers which were originally set up for military use and you're covering huge arrays like you know out of austin right and suddenly you can't the other radio stations are gone and this these genres are now imposed on everybody and the first thing they did was play jazz all the time right? You turn on the radio, you're going to hear jazz.

People did not like, I read, I can read a lot more quotes.

Various gangster reported that during prohibition, they had smuggled illegal liquor into the US with Joe Kennedy.

Joe worked with David Sarnoff and his Radio Corporation of America.

Joe had an extremely varied sexual life.

He had affairs with countless women and his son JFK followed in his footsteps.