David Sarnoff
Businessperson, Organization founder
1891 – 1971
Who was David Sarnoff?
David Sarnoff was a Belarusian-born American businessman and pioneer of American radio and television. Throughout most of his career he led the Radio Corporation of America in various capacities from shortly after its founding in 1919 until his retirement in 1970.
He ruled over an ever-growing telecommunications and consumer electronics 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.
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- Born
- Feb 27, 1891
Uzlyany - Also known as
- The General
- General David Sarnoff
- Parents
- Spouses
- Lizette Hermant
(1917/07/04 - )
- Lizette Hermant
- Children
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Employment
- Office boy, Commercial Cable Company
- Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America
(1906/09/30 - 1919)
- Lived in
- New Jersey
- Died
- Dec 12, 1971
New York City - Resting place
- Kensico Cemetery
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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