Word: sarnoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fraternizing with the enemy. In Manhattan, Cinemogul Nicholas Schenck sat down with RCA's President David Sarnoff to discuss ways & means for M-G-M movie stars to appear on NBC television shows...
...same feeling. When they get a raise, taxes take so much that they have little of it left in real income. To find other ways to reward them, U.S. industry is evolving a system of weird and complex devices known as "gimmicks." Says RCA's Chairman David Sarnoff: "You can't compete for executive talent today without a gimmick...
...Frank Kiggins White, 53, president of the National Broadcasting Co., who succeeded Joseph McConnell only six months ago, resigned "for reasons of health," and his duties were temporarily taken over by RCA-NBC Chairman David Sarnoff. White has been in ill health almost from the time he took over NBC, was forced to relinquish more and more of his duties...
...members: General Omar Bradley, Scientist Vannevar Bush, President Milton S. Eisenhower of Penn State College, Office of Defense Mobilization Chief Arthur Flemming, former Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett, RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff...
...Board Chairman David Sarnoff promised an RCA video tape recorder within two years, and a presentation, by the industry, of the case for color TV before the Federal Communications Commission within three months. He also departed from his prepared address to kick subscription TV in its coin box. Said Sarnoff: "I sincerely believe that pay-as-you-see television on a national basis will prove to be a snare and a delusion." Instead, Sarnoff urged the broadcasters to stay close, as always, to their advertisers...