[Interview with Dick Block] [sound recording] / Dick Block ; [interviewed by] David Marc, Santa Monica, 3/01/97. 1997.

Block, Richard E.

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Armstrong, Edwin H. (Edwin Howard), 1890-1954

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Edwin Howard Armstrong is one of America's greatest inventors and scientists. He was born in New York City on December 18, 1890 and died there on January 31, 1954. Armstrong studied electrical engineering at Columbia University. In 1912 he invented a feedback circuit that allowed signals to be produced with greatly increased amplification. This invention is the basis of radio and television and for it he was awarded the Franklin Medal, the highest U.S. scientific honor. In 1933 he invention circ...

Goldenson, Leonard H.

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Beginning with his takeover in 1953 of the fledgling American Broadcasting Company, Leonard Goldenson became one of the most famous pioneers of television history. After being hired to assist in the successful reorganization of near-bankrupt Paramount Pictures, Goldenson then turned to Hollywood in the early 1950s. Competing against broadcasting giants NBC and CBS, Goldenson engineered such successful ABC ventures as American Bandstand, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, and The Mickey Mouse C...

Fox, Sonny

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Marc, David

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Block Communications Group.

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Desilu Productions

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United States. Federal Communications Commission

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Ziv, Fred.

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Wolper, David L.

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