Frank Stanton
<p><b>Frank Nicholas Stanton</b> (March 20, 1908 – December 24, 2006) was an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcasting" title="Broadcasting">broadcasting</a> executive who served as the president of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> between 1946 and 1971 and then as vice chairman until 1973. He also served as the chairman of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Corporation" title="Rand Corporation" class="mw-redirect">Rand Corporation</a> from 1961 until 1967.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_1-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Stanton%28executive%29#cite_note-obit-1">[1]</a></sup> Along with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S.Paley" title="William S. Paley">William S. Paley</a>, Stanton is credited with the significant growth of CBS into a communications powerhouse.
Stanton was revered both as a spokesman for the broadcast industry before <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">Congress</a>, and for his passionate support of broadcast journalism and journalists. Former CBS News President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_S._Salant" title="Richard S. Salant">Richard S. Salant</a> – a widely respected news chief and an appointee of Stanton's – praised Stanton as a corporate mentor and statesman.</p>