Robert W. Sarnoff (July 2, 1918 – February 23, 1997) was an American businessman best known as the chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Radio Corporation of America (RCA) after assuming those positions on the retirement of his father, David Sarnoff. During his rise through the company's ranks, he was best known for his advocacy of color television.
Through the early 1970s, Sarnoff attempted to build RCA into a multinational conglomerate which included rental cars, carpet manufacturing, book publishing and sold frozen vegetables. Focus on RCA's core technology businesses waned and also resulted in the selling of their computer division at a massive financial loss. The company's new direction was not particularly successful, and RCA struggled during the 1973–1975 recession.
After five years as chairman, a "palace revolt" by the board and senior RCA executives removed Sarnoff from the CEO position. After Sarnoff's unsuccessful tenure, RCA never recovered its former stature and was purchased by General Electric in 1986, which liquidated most of the company's assets. After a struggle with cancer, Robert Sarnoff died in 1997 at the age of 78.
Robert W. Sarnoff (July 2, 1918 – February 23, 1997) was an American businessman best known as the chief executive officer and chairman of the board of...
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tenure running the network. His successors (first, David Sarnoff's son, Robert; then, Robert Kintner) standardized the network's programming practices...
2017. Retrieved March 13, 2017. Andreeva, Nellie (September 21, 2018). "Robert Greenblatt Eyes Exit From NBC". Deadline. Archived from the original on...
RobertSarnoff succeeded his father as RCA's president, although the elder Sarnoff remained in control as chairman of the board. The younger Sarnoff sought...
December 8, 1957. The couple divorced in 1972. Her second marriage was to RobertSarnoff, the chairman of the RCA Corporation, on November 14, 1974. He died...
Sarnoff Corporation was a research and development company specializing in vision, video and semiconductor technology. It was named for David Sarnoff...
Walker, the CEO of Walt Disney Productions, convinced RCA chairman RobertSarnoff to sponsor the new attraction; RCA was contracted by Disney to provide...
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previously considered relocating from New York City. RCA's chief executive RobertSarnoff also announced that the company would construct a "management and conference...
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first. This was shortly after David Sarnoff had retired and handed the CEO role to his son, RobertSarnoff. Robert was more interested in building the...
network in 1955 in a dispute with its chairman David Sarnoff, who subsequently named his son RobertSarnoff as president. In 1951, NBC commissioned Italian-American...
major contribution of $100,000 was made later in 1965 by NBC chairman RobertSarnoff following NBC's repurchase of the former KYW stations. WVIZ-TV began...
WRC-TV Channel 4 as the first to be designed to broadcast in color. RobertSarnoff, president of NBC at the time, in the middle of the black-and-white...
Morison's research assistants in the project, Henry Salomon, knew NBC's RobertSarnoff and, in 1949, first proposed an ambitious documentary TV series on U...
It is said the person who delivered the ultimatum was Robert W. Sarnoff, the son of David Sarnoff. "Ding Dong School" (PDF). Radio and Television Mirror...
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canceled. The person said to have delivered this message was Robert W. Sarnoff, son of David Sarnoff. Ohles, Ohles & Ramsay 1997, p. 168. "Frances Horwich"...
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