The play, which director Michael Hatton described as a “traditional David versus Goliath” story, follows Philo Farnsworth, who invented television as a young man, as he becomes embroiled in a legal battle with RCA president David Sarnoff. According to...

Like other industrialists before him, Crane’s aim is to expand the use of new technologies by making them so inexpensive that they become commonplace. Thomas Edison replaced kerosene lamps with electric light. David Sarnoff displaced radios with...

Contrary to what you may think, corporations don't always embrace innovation. In fact, many companies do just the opposite: going out of their way to quash inventions and block innovation. One of the best known cases involved David Sarnoff, head of the...

Downs, who co-anchored NBC’s “Today” show for nearly 10 years (1962-71), can still recall the time he received a personal phone call from NBC’s fearsome founder, “General” David Sarnoff. “Back when there was an argument about whether earth’s low-orbit...

People often reject mystery, awe and the wonder of possibilities because they fear the uncertainty attendant with them. My hope is that people can learn to allay their worst fears without abandoning their souls in the process. David Sarnoff had it right.

He dispatched a staff member into the bowels of NBC’s headquarters to select 50 or 60 photos and then Burke went through them personally, choosing Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Johnny Carson, Groucho Marx, the Seinfeld cast, and NBC’s leaders like David...