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The company was co-founded by Ralph Matthews and Karl Hassel in Chicago, Illinois, as Chicago Radio Labs in 1918 as a small producer of amateur radio equipment. The name "Zenith" came from ZN'th, a contraction of its founders' ham radio call sign, 9ZN. They were joined in 1921 by Eugene F. McDonald, [4] and Zenith Radio Company was incorporated ...
Founder and CEO of Zenith Radio Corporation: Known for: Marketed the first portable multiband radio, the first TV remote control, and developer of the worlds first “Pay Per View” television service that made its global debut on May 1, 1950 . Yachtsman, detailed management style, and commitment to quality of Zenith Radio Corporation products.
The station began broadcasting on February 2, 1940, as experimental station W9XEN, licensed to Chicago-based radio/television manufacturer Zenith Radio Corporation. [ 3 ] [ 9 ] In May 1940, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the establishment, effective January 1, 1941, of an FM radio band operating on 40 channels spanning 42 ...
Audiences at the Edgewater Beach Hotel could watch WJAZ studio performances through sound-proofed plate-glass windows (1923) [1] WJAZ was first licensed on August 17, 1922 [2] to the Chicago Radio Laboratory (reorganized in 1924 as the Zenith Radio Corporation), for operation on the standard "entertainment" wavelength of 360 meters (833 kHz). [3]
Zenith Data Systems Corporation (ZDS) was an American computer systems manufacturing company active from 1979 to 1996.It was originally a division of the Zenith Radio Company (later Zenith Electronics), after they had purchased the Heath Company and, by extension, their Heathkit line of electronic kits and kit microcomputers, from Schlumberger in October 1979.
Zenith had originally occupied television channel 1 in Chicago starting on February 2, 1939, when W9XZV went on the air. [3] [4] W9XZV was one of America's first non-mechanical television stations and, until October 1940, the only television station in Chicago. [3] Zenith's allocation was later moved to channel 2. [4]
Doe claimed that on Sept. 7, 2000, she went to Radio City Music Hall to try to attend the VMAs. The then-13-year-old, who had no ticket, couldn’t get in and watched from outside on a jumbotron.
The Radio Nurse was the first electronic baby monitor. Manufactured by the Zenith Radio Corporation, it went on sale in 1938. The product was developed by Zenith executive Eugene F. McDonald, and designed by Japanese-American sculptor and product designer Isamu Noguchi. Although the product was manufactured for only a few years, it has been ...