David Sarnoff
David Sarnoff ( weißruss. Давід Сарноў, russ Давид Сарнов; born February 27, 1891 in Uzlyany, † December 12, 1971 ) was an American businessman and pioneer of commercial broadcasting. He founded the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) and headed for decades the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).
The " Sarnoff 's Law" states that the value of the broadcaster reflected the growth of the number of spectators.
Life
David Sarnoff immigrated with parents and siblings of Belarus to the United States. In New York he worked as a messenger boy for a telegraph company, but when they refused him to take unpaid leave for Rosh Hashanah, Sarnoff joined in September 1906 Marconi.
There Sarnoff made his career. He studied engineering and business models of electronic communication both in daily work and in libraries. Sarnoff also worked at Marconi stations on ships and on Nantucket. In the New York branch of the department store Wanamaker Sarnoff transferred music with a transmitter of Henry Joseph Round.
After this demonstration he hit the AT & T Chairman Edward J. Nally 1915 or 1916 before a " Radio Music Box " for the " amateur" to develop market. As the General Electric Company American Marconi took over and transformed the Radio Corporation of America, Sarnoff helped in the transfer of heavyweight boxing match between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier in July 1921. Approximately 300,000 listeners watched the fight on the radio, and the demand for radio receivers grew for home.
In 1930, Sarnoff president of RCA. In the 1939 New York World's Fair Sarnoff introduced the first regular television broadcast. In the early 1950s Sarnoff sat by the TV color system of NBC against the competition CBS.
Family
On July 4, 1917 Sarnoff married the neighbor's daughter Lizette Hermant, daughter of French immigrants who had also settled in the Bronx. The marriage lasted 54 years, until his death. Your produced three sons: Robert W. Sarnoff, Edward Sarnoff and Thomas W. Sarnoff. Robert inherited his father in 1971 as RCA Chairman; the youngest son, Thomas, became chairman of NBC West Coast.
His cousin Eugene Lyons wrote a biography of Sarnoff.