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 ...

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 ...

His father was RCA/NBC media mogul David Sarnoff, head of the fabled American media family, and he had a six-decade career helping usher in the era of television. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief ...

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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 ...

Under David Sarnoff, the Army Reserve officer who helped found the firm back in 1919, the Radio Corporation of America grew into a giant largely by feeding on itself: it manufactured radio and TV sets ...

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 ...

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