David Sarnoff (1891 - 1971)

Born 27 Feb 1891 in Uzlyany, Puhovichi, Minsk, Belarus

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Died 12 Dec 1971 at age 80 in Manhattan, New York City, United States

David Sarnoff has Jewish Roots.

David Sarnoff is buried in Kensico Cemetery.

Biography

David Sarnoff is Notable.

David was born in 1891. He passed away in 1971. He was a maternal uncle of screenwriter Richard Baer.

David Sarnoff was an American businessman and pioneer of American radio and television. Throughout most of his career he led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in various capacities from shortly after its founding in 1919 until his retirement in 1970.

He ruled over an ever-growing telecommunications and media empire that included both RCA and NBC, and became one of the largest companies in the world. Named a Reserve Brigadier General of the Signal Corps in 1945, Sarnoff thereafter was widely known as "The General."

Sarnoff is credited with Sarnoff's law, which states that the value of a broadcast network is proportional to the number of viewers.^[1]

He battled Edwin Howard Armstrong, the inventor of radio, and stole patents from him and Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sarnoff
2. ↑ http://www.historyofelectronics.com/Much-Ado-About-Almost-Nothing.pdf

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4013/david-sarnoff: accessed March 15, 2024), memorial page for David Sarnoff (27 Feb 1891–12 Dec 1971), Find A Grave: Memorial #4013, citing Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, Westchester County, New York, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.