Edwin Howard Armstrong

<p>"Sarnoff was instrumental in building and established the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM_broadcasting" title="AM broadcasting">AM broadcasting</a> radio business which became the preeminent public radio standard for the majority of the 20th century. This was until <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_broadcasting" title="FM broadcasting">FM broadcasting</a> radio re-emerged in the 1960s despite Sarnoff's efforts to suppress it (following FM's initial appearance and disappearance during the 1930s and 1940s - see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Network" title="Yankee Network">Yankee Network</a> for more details on early <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_broadcasting" title="FM broadcasting">FM broadcasting</a> and a tragic legacy to the Sarnoff story, see also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_radio" title="FM radio" class="mw-redirect">FM radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Howard_Armstrong" title="Edwin Howard Armstrong">Edwin Howard Armstrong</a> the inventor who committed suicide financially broken and mentally beaten after years of legal tussles with RCA and others )."</p>