Noun
United States businessman who pioneered in radio and television broadcasting (1891-1971)
Source: WordNetA case in point: at BoF’s Voices conference in 2018, fashion’s biggest heavyweights listened as sustainability strategist Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff spoke about the need to tackle microplastics found in fabrics that wind up in the ocean. Source: Internet
A similar violation occurred in 2010 when then-Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff was caught running a law practice out of his home without permits. Source: Internet
Bergreen, p. 183 But it was not just to one-up rival Sarnoff that Paley led his talent raid; he, and all of radio, had their eye on the coming force that threw a shadow over radio throughout the 1940s – television. Source: Internet
Later years Two vacuum tube cartons, displaying different generations of the RCA logo David Sarnoff, whose ambition and business acumen had helped RCA become one of the world's largest companies, turned the company over to his son Robert in 1970. Source: Internet
Despite the company's indisputable leadership in television technology, David Sarnoff in 1955 commented, "Television will never be a medium of entertainment". Source: Internet
Diversification David Sarnoff with the first RCA videotape recorder, 1954. Source: Internet