Word: sarnoffs
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Super-Radiocasting. David Sarnoff, Vice President and General Manager of the Radio Corporation of America, declared that his company was ready to erect a great "superpower" radiocasting station near Manhattan, and later link it up with a series of such stations if the experiment proved successful. The smaller radiocasters were afraid of interference, and a compromise was finally reached for permitting experiments with superpower radio under close supervision...
...introduced in Congress by Representative White of Maine, to increase the powers of the Secretary of Commerce to refuse transmission licenses to companies believed to be seeking to establish monopolies. Secretary Hoover upheld the bill in committee hearings, declaring radio must be safeguarded as a public utility. David Sarnoff, Vice President and General Manager of the Radio Corporation of America, favors the bill with some modification. Secretary of War Weeks fears its provisions may hamper the Army's Signal Service. Guy E. Tripp, Chairman of the Board of the Westinghouse Company, favors the creation of a super-radio broadcasting...
...David Sarnoff, Vice President of the Radio Corporation of America: "The real picture of a $15 or $25 set in the home of the slums, if you please, receiving the magnificent things in the air, is the picture we must preserve...
...David Sarnoff, General Manager of the Radio Corporation of America, sent a message to Iwaki station, Japan, by radio from Columbia, Mo., received a reply by telephone...