Word: radiola
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...sell radios, it had to have programming--music, news, sports. On July 2, 1921, he arranged the broadcast of the Jack Dempsey-Georges Carpentier prizefight (great ratings in the male demos), which was a watershed event. Within three years the radio music box, now called the Radiola (price: a hefty $75), was a success, with sales of $83.5 million...
...manage a wireless station in Cleveland, became chief operator, then supervisor of the Great Lakes Division of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., whence he was hired by RCA's David Sarnoff as his assistant. When RCA bought Victor Talking Machine Co. he was put in charge of Radiola sales. He got into televison in 1934 when RCA promoted him to manager of its license division. For running Farnsworth, 45-year-old Edward Nicholas will get a block of stock and a starting salary close to the $30,000 he drew down...
Victor sells a phonograph with a R. C. A. Radiola contained.† It also has the right to use R. C. A.'s research, as well as General Electric's, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing's, American Telephone & Telegraph's and Western Electric's discoveries in the field of acoustics & sound reproductions...
...sells Radiolas also to the Brusnwick-Balke-Collender Co. for use in the "Brunswick Panatrope with Radiola...
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