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If David Sarnoff can be recalled for any single ambition, it is his desire to be remembered as the man who singlehandedly delivered television unto the world.
Over more than a decade starting in the late 1920s, Sarnoff had spent an estimated $10 million of RCA's profits (that's roughly $240 million in 2025 dollars) on television research.
By 1939, RCA's Board of Directors was starting to question when they might see some sort of payoff from all that investment of time and treasure.
Despite lingering uncertains around the signal standards that would be necessary for an orderly introduction of the new medium, Sarnoff informed his Board that he was going to launch commercial television, and he had the perfect venue in mind: the 1939 New York World's Fair.
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