Word: sarnoffs
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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 prove" years of fierce competition with the RCA board chairman, was speaking to 1,500 friends at a Waldorf-Astoria dinner honoring Sarnoffs 60 years in the communications industry. "To all of us," said Paley, "David will always be broadcasting's Man of the Future...
...decades ago, all David Sarnoff had was the future. Up from steerage, out of grammar school and supporting an immigrant family of six at 15, Sarnoff learned early to run hard. By 17, he had taught himself Morse code and snared a job pounding a telegraph key for the American Marconi Co. He first tasted fame on a night the world would remember-April 14, 1912. Sarnoff picked up a message from the British steamship Titanic. "Hit an iceberg," it read. "Sinking fast." For 72 hours, he stayed at the key, guiding rescue ships and relaying names of survivors. Thereafter...
...Communications Satellite Corp. will have five Early Birds in space, which will enable any single TV broadcast to blanket the globe, and within the next few years some 20 countries will have built stations to tune in on Comsat's broadcasts. Such prophets as RCA's David Sarnoff foresee the day when it will be possible to reach every home in every country by direct broadcast from a satellite. Not everyone, of course, can be expected to view this possibility with enthusiasm. The Russians would not like the idea of every dacha in the Ukraine receiving broadcasts from...
Some experts consider Sarnoff's approach too visionary, believe that for a long time to come Comsat will serve strictly as a telephone and telegraph conveyance that would only occasionally be used for broadcasting international events of overriding importance. Even so, some form of agreement will have to be reached, if only to settle quarrels that are already looming-over what fees Comsat can collect, what programs it should broadcast, who should own the ground stations that will relay them, and whether Comsat should retain its monopoly status...
...Will Sarnoff take the other...