Word: stantons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in the out-at-elbow days of the depression '30s, a young Hungarian engineer named Peter Goldmark tried unsuccessfully to get a job with Radio Corp. of America. About the same time, an equally obscure Ohio researcher named Frank Stanton was brushed off with a form letter when he wrote to RCA's subsidiary...
...total investment of $100 a week RCA could have hired both men and saved itself many a future headache. Today, Frank Stanton is president of Columbia Broadcasting System and Peter Goldmark is CBS's top color-television engineer. Between them, they have led a series of determined assaults on RCA's vast, multimillion-dollar manufacturing, recording and broadcasting empire, are CBS's top men today in a serious threat to RCA's supremacy in television. Objective of their campaign: to sell the U.S. public CBS's brand of color television...
Committed Battalions. During Stanton's presidency, CBS first stole a march on RCA Victor by launching the 33⅓ r.p.m. long-playing record. At the end of 1948, CBS launched a full-scale talent raid on NBC, and captured such topflight entertainers as Jack Benny, Amos 'n' Andy, George Burns & Gracie Allen, Edgar Bergen, Red Skelton. Last October, CBS won what seemed at the time to be its biggest victory of all: a 5-to-2 decision by the Federal Communications Commission in favor of CBS's color TV over the rival systems...
...probably be carried to the U.S. Supreme Court. The delay enabled RCA to continue working to perfect its "dot sequential" color system. It would cause financial strain to CBS and inevitably postpone the mass production of CBS colorsets, adapters and converters. Though confident of ultimate victory, CBS President Frank Stanton recognized that it might come too late. Said Stanton: "Daddy may be proven innocent after he's hanged-that's the possibility...
...Four more manufacturers (Belmont, Webster, Muntz and the Television Equipment Corp.) broke ranks, joined Emerson, Celomat and Tele-tone in promising to make CBS color equipment. Tele-tone, with sets already in the works, said it would have quantity production by Jan. 1. Crowed CBS President Frank Stanton in full-page newspaper ads: "CBS welcomes Tele-tone-the first set manufacturer to bring you color television...