Word: sarnoffs
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MARCY CARSEY and TOM WERNER, two of television's most prolific producers (3rd Rock from the Sun, The Cosby Show, Roseanne) are proud to be "charter members" of the TV generation. Who better than they to tell you about David Sarnoff, the brilliant man who founded NBC and put that addictive device in your living room...
...products that were mass-produced based on standardized designs, mass-marketed through new forms of mass media and spewed forth in cookie-cutter form from big factories and studios. This included not only consumer goods like Ford's cars, but everything from William Levitt's suburban homes to David Sarnoff's nationally broadcast shows to Ray Kroc's Big Macs. Mass production made all sorts of stuff, from toothpaste to TVs, more affordable, but it also led to a certain conformity. And because of economies of scale, it had a centralizing effect: power shifted from local craftsmen, shopkeepers and family...
...nearly impossible to imagine that it was less than 60 years ago, in 1939, when David Sarnoff told a crowd of curious viewers, "Now we add sight to sound." Sarnoff went on to say, "It is with a feeling of humbleness that I come to this moment of announcing the birth in this country of a new art so important in its implications that it is bound to affect all society. It is an art which shines like a torch of hope in the troubled world. It is a creative force which we must learn to utilize for the benefit...
...that fateful day in 1939, with America recovering from its greatest depression and war rumbling in the distance, Sarnoff gave the world a look into a new life. Not only was he instrumental in creating both radio and television as we know them, he was also nearly clairvoyant in seeing how each medium would develop. He regarded black-and-white TV as only a transitional phase to color and even predicted the invention of the VCR. His stubborn pursuit of technology turned his employer, Radio Corp. of America, into a powerhouse in less than a decade...
...into a fresh field, almost everyone agrees that the key to personal success and happiness in retiring early is to do something you are passionate about--but with enough assets to cushion this renaissance. "If you didn't do something when you were young, don't resent it," says Sarnoff. "Just go for the dream...