Thomas W. Sarnoff, who had a six-decade career at NBC as the youngest son of RCA/NBC media mogul David Sarnoff, has died. He was 96.
Sarnoff died Sunday, a spokesperson for the Television Academy Foundation told The Hollywood Reporter . No cause of death was indicated.
He was born in New York City into the fabled American media family on Feb. 23, 1927, and legend has it he was television’s “first live star” — a test subject for the Radio Corporation of America/NBC World’s Fair demonstration of the TV medium in the 1930s.
One of his two brothers was Robert Sarnoff, best known for succeeding his father as the CEO and chairman of the board of RCA.
Thomas Sarnoff attended Princeton University before his World War II service as a combat engineer and as a signal corps instructor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
After the war, he transferred to Stanford University,...
Sarnoff died Sunday, a spokesperson for the Television Academy Foundation told The Hollywood Reporter . No cause of death was indicated.
He was born in New York City into the fabled American media family on Feb. 23, 1927, and legend has it he was television’s “first live star” — a test subject for the Radio Corporation of America/NBC World’s Fair demonstration of the TV medium in the 1930s.
One of his two brothers was Robert Sarnoff, best known for succeeding his father as the CEO and chairman of the board of RCA.
Thomas Sarnoff attended Princeton University before his World War II service as a combat engineer and as a signal corps instructor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
After the war, he transferred to Stanford University,...
- 6/8/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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