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Belated Recognition. Kintner began by giving NBC's official chronology of the Twenty One affair. When Herbert Stempel made his first charges that the show was crooked in September 1957, NBC officials did not report the matter to Kintner or Board Chairman Robert W. Sarnoff, but took Producer Dan Enright's assurance that Stempel was lying. A year later, when the Stempel charges finally broke in the press, NBC still took the word of Producer Enright and his partner, Jack Barry, relying largely on their "excellent reputation"; Kintner was not asked and did not tell the committee that...
CLIENT RCA had problems with people. It was tightly bossed by prideful, brilliant David Sarnoff, who did better at creating products than marketing them. Its scientists performed better than its managers. When Burns arrived on the scene, RCA brass bared the corporate soul and accounting books. Burns worked up 100 monumental reports suggesting changes in RCA. To launch RCA in TV, Burns advised its National Broadcasting Co. to spend freely on a few outstanding shows and fill the other hours with low-budget shows; it proved to be NBC's success formula, set the pattern for other networks...
...known outside the trade, to have attracted so much high-powered devotion? Wiry, long-faced Manie (pronounced Manny) was a longtime recording executive for Columbia Records, later a vice president of both NBC and RCA, and he died last year of leukemia at 56. Says RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff: "He was the most selfless man I ever knew." Frank Sinatra credits him with "a closetful of right arms." Adds Variety Editor Abel Green in a bathetic burst: "His was the unashamed opening of the pores of human kindness...
...Chairman David Sarnoff reported estimated fourth-quarter profits of 74? a share v. 68? last year...
...heart of the civil consent decree was tacit and sympathetic recognition by the Justice Department that dear to RCA is the development of color TV, in which the corporation has invested $130 million to date. In early negotiations RCA's Board Chairman David Sarnoff fought hard to keep complete patent power over his multichrome...