[Hallicrafters] Echophone Hogarth Ads

[Richard Knoppow]

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From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>
To: "Richard Knoppow" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>; "rbethman" 
<rbethman at comcast.net>; <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Echophone Hogarth Ads


David Sarnoff, of RCA, basically hated Bill Halligan, of 
Hallicrafters, and refused to grant Hallicrafters a license 
to use the Hazeltine patents. To get a license, Halligan 
purchased Echophone and Sarnoff could not do anything to 
prevent the license transfer from taking place.

Glen, K9STH

     Well, RCA did this to a lot of smaller companies so I 
wonder if it was based on any sort of personal dislike. When 
RCA was founded by General Electric they bought out the 
American Marconi company and most of the executive staff of 
the new company were just moved over from Marconi. Marconi 
was very strongly oriented toward being an international 
monopoly; the executives from Marconi wanted to make RCA a 
monopoly and did their best to accomplish it. If you have 
any citations about Sarnoff and Halligan I would be glad to 
have them, RCA history is one of my special interests.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com