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CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides 9/23/09 4:12 PM Page 1 CE Hall of Fame Awards Program Honoring the 2009 Inductees Into the CE Hall of Fame Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Arizona Grand Ballroom E, F, H, I Arizona Grand Resort 7–8 p.m. Dinner Service 2009 Menu Appetizer Thai Scallop in Fhyllo Shell Salad Vine Ripe Tomato Confit, House Made Mozzarella, Parmesan Crisp, Basil Pesto Entrée Butter Poached Beef Tenderloin, Salt Baked Yukon Gold Potatoes, Grilled Asparagus, Bearnaise Followed by a Dessert Reception 8–9 p.m. Presentation of the Inductees Master of Ceremonies Gary Shapiro President and CEO Consumer Electronics Association 9–10 p.m. Buffet of Assorted Desserts Hall of Fame 2009 www.CE.org 1 2009 CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides 2 www.CE.org 9/23/09 4:12 PM Page 2 CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides 9/23/09 4:12 PM Page 3 Leading the Way The $160 billion CE industry is defined by change and competition. The 2009 inductees thrive by being challenged. Each has a strong vision and the tenacity and drive to bring their ideas to market. The initial class of 50 leaders will grow to 146 members tonight when the 13 new inductees join this group. The 2009 class will join such visionaries as Ray Dolby, Ken Kai, Steve Wozniak, Dr.Amar Bose, Dick Schulze and Joe Clayton. The 2009 Class The inductees include company founders and inventors, those who passionately move technology forward, marketing geniuses, retailers that bring products to consumers and journalists that write about them. These leaders inspire those who follow in their footsteps. Dr. Irwin Jacobs, co-founder of Qualcomm, led the commercialization of CDMA technology.With more than 780 million 3G CDMA subscribers worldwide, Qualcomm is now the top wireless chipset supplier. The late Karl Hassel and Ralph Mathews founded the Chicago Radio Laboratory, which later became Zenith Radio. The company began as a radio manufacturer and later became the number one maker of blackand-white television sets. June 12, 2009 marked the successful transition from analog to digital television (DTV). Tonight we honor two leaders who Hall of Fame 2009 worked together to help make HDTV a reality. The Hon. Richard Wiley, past Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), led the government and industry effort which paved the way for the unique U.S. system. Dr. Joseph Flaherty demonstrated HDTV to the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers in 1981 and was chairman of the ACATS planning committee and its technology sub-group. A worldwide icon, Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. helped to create one of the first commercially successful PCs, the Macintosh (Mac), revolutionized portable music and how we buy music, and remade the cell phone industry. John Shalam founded Audiovox Corp. and helped establish the aftermarket car audio business, the aftermarket security business and the mobile video business, growing Audiovox into a $600 million company. The late Neil Terk founded Terk Technologies, a recognized name in radio and TV antennas including the Pi antenna. On the retail front, Walton Stinson is not only president and co-founder of the Denver-based Listen Up audio/video specialty chain, he also co-founded the Professional Audio Video Retailer's Association (PARA). The Cohen brothers: Maurice, Norman and Philip, grew their father's Cambridge tire store in Boston into the discount retail giant Lechmere Sales that specialized in CE products.And for more than a half century Aaron Neretin has been a respected CE journalist serving as editor and publisher of Merchandizing Magazine and later founding Neretin Associates, a retail market intelligence firm. To select the 2009 class, a panel of media and industry professionals met in New York on February 24, to judge the hundreds of nominations that were submitted by manufacturers, retailers and industry journalists. The judges used the demo- cratic process of the majority of votes to determine the new class.We thank the following journalists and industry leaders for volunteering their time and expertise to participate in the CE Hall of Fame program: Jim Barry Rob Calem Henry Chiarelli Rebecca Day Richard Doherty Peter Fannon Brian Fenton Joe Palenchar Janet Pinkerton Steve Smith Herman Sperling John Taylor Jack Wayman A Call for Nominations Participate in the 2010 CE Hall of Fame program by nominating the individual you believe has contributed most significantly to the consumer electronics industry.Visit www.CE.org to submit a nomination form. Final selections will be judged by a panel made up of CEA members, media and other industry professionals. Make your voice heard.As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote,“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Gary Shapiro CEA President and CEO 2009 elcome to the CE Hall of Fame awards dinner. Tonight, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of this program which honors the leaders who have helped shape the consumer technology industry. These inventors, promoters, retailers and entrepreneurs provide products and services that entertain, inform and connect consumers. W Cindy Stevens CEA Senior Director, Publications www.CE.org 3 CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides Congratulations 9/23/09 4:12 PM Page 4 Congratulations CE Vision magazine congratulates the new inductees to the CE Hall of Fame. We thank you 2009 for your contribution to the advancement of the consumer electronics industry. Maurice, Norman and Philip Cohen Dr. Joseph Flaherty Dr. Irwin Jacobs Steve Jobs Neil Terk Aaron Neretin Richard Wiley John Shalam Team: Karl Hassell/Ralph Mathews Walt Stinson Capture the Vision of CES all year long! The official publication of CEA. 4 www.CE.org CEA Consumer Electronics Association CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides 9/23/09 4:12 PM Page 5 2009 Inductees 2006 Inductees 2003 Inductees 2000 Inductees Cohen Maurice, Norman and Philip Dr. Flaherty Joseph Dr. Jacobs Irwin Jobs Steve Neretin Aaron Shalam John Stinson Walt Terk Neil Wiley Richard Team: Karl Hassell, Ralph Mathews Doyle, Jack Galvin, Robert Heilmeier, George Holonyak Jr., Dr. Nicholas Ladd, Howard Richard, Alfred J. Roach, John Team: Donald Blitzer, Gene Slottow and Robert Wilson Team: Andrew Grove and Gordon Moore Borchardt, Herbert Feldman, Leonard Immink, Kees A. Schouhammer Kasuga, William Kent, Atwater Steinberg, Jules Takayanagi, Kenjiro Tushinsky, Joseph Wurtzel, Alan Abrams, Benjamin Adler, Robert Armstrong, Edwin Baird, John Logie Balderston, William Bardeen, John Bell, Alexander Graham Blay, Andre Brattain, Walter Braun, Karl Ferdinand Bushnell, Nolan Crosley Jr., Powel DeForest, Lee Dolby, Ray DuMont, Allen Edison, Thomas Eilers, Carl Farnsworth, Philo T. Fessenden, Reginald Aubrey Fisher, Avery Freimann, Frank Galvin, Paul Ginsberg, Charles Goldmark, Peter Harman, Dr. Sidney Hertz, Heinrich Ibuka, Masaru Johnson, Eldridge Kilby, Jack Kloss, Henry Koss Sr., John Lachenbruch, David Lansing, James B. Marantz, Saul Marconi, Guglielmo 2008 Inductees Abt, David and Jewel Clayton, Joe Dunlavey, Dean Fantel, Hans Hartenstein, Eddy Kutaragi, Ken Lieberfarb, Warren Sennheiser, Fritz Sharp, Richard Team: Cooper, Martin/Linder, Donald 2007 Inductees Allen, Paul Bose, Dr. Amar Crutchfield Jr., William G. Day, James Edward McDonald, John Sasson, Steven Schulze, Richard Weinberg, Art Team: Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg, Dr. Heinz Gerhäuser and Dr. Dieter Seitzer Hall of Fame 2009 2005 Inductees Crane, Ken Donohue, Joseph Elias, Harry Fezell, George Gold, Saul Levis, Art Luskin, Jack Matshushita, Masaharu Winegard, John Team: William Hewlett and David Packard 2004 Inductees Blumlein, Alan Dower Brief, Henry Gerson, Robert E. Kai, Ken Kalov, Jerry Klipsch, Paul Ohga, Norio Paik, Dr. Woo Wozniak, Steven Team: Richard Frenkiel and Joel Engel 2002 Inductees Alexanderson, Ernst F.W. Appel, Bernard Baker, W.G.B. Boss, William E. Ekstract, Richard Fisher, Walter Gates, Raymond Lear, William Powell Polk, Sol Sauter, Jack K. 2001 Inductees Berliner, Emil Fleming, Sir John Ambrose Gernsback, Hugo Jensen, Peter Laurits Muntz, Earl Poulsen, Valdemar Westinghouse, George Matsushita, Konosuke McDonald Jr., Cmdr. Eugene Morita, Akio Noyce, Robert Poniatoff, Alexander M. Roberts, Ed Sarnoff, David Scott, Hermon Hosmer Shiraishi, Yuma Shockley, William Siragusa Sr., Ross Takano, Shizuo Tesla, Nikola Wayman, Jack Zworykin, Vladimir www.CE.org 2009 Distinguished Members of the CE Hall of Fame 5 CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides 9/23/09 4:12 PM Page 6 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, PALEY LIBRARY, URBAN ARCHIVES CE Hall of Fame Gallery DAVID ABT JEWEL ABT ROBERT ADLER ERNST F.W. ALEXANDERSON PAUL ALLEN EMILE BERLINER DR. DONALD BITZER ANDRE BLAY ALAN DOWER BLUMLEIN HERBERT BORCHARDT JOE CLAYTON MAURICE COHEN NORMAN COHEN PHILIP COHEN MARTIN COOPER JOHN “JACK” DOYLE ALLEN DUMONT DEAN DUNLAVEY THOMAS EDISON CARL EILERS BERNARD APPEL EDWIN ARMSTRONG JOHN LOGIE BAIRD W.G.B. BAKER WILLIAM BALDERSTON JOHN BARDEEN HENRY BRIEF TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, PALEY LIBRARY, URBAN ARCHIVES 2009 BENJAMIN ABRAMS ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL KEN CRANE WILLIAM E. BOSS POWELL CROSLEY JR. DR. KARLHEINZ BRANDENBURG WALTER BRATTAIN KARL FERDINAND BRAUN WILLIAM G. CRUTCHFIELD, JR JAMES EDWARD DAY LEE DEFOREST RAY DOLBY TERRY’S PHOTOGRAPHY NOLAN BUSHNELL DR. AMAR BOSE JOSEPH DONAHUE 6 www.CE.org RICHARD EKSTRACT HARRY ELIAS JOEL ENGEL HANS FANTEL PHILO T. FARNSWORTH LEONARD FELDMAN CEA Consumer Electronics Association Page 7 GALBREATH WALTER FISHER DR. JOSEPH FLAHERTY CHARLES GINSBERG SAUL GOLD PETER GOLDMARK MASARU IBUKA DR. KEES A. SCHOUHAMER IMMINK DR. IRWIN M. JACOBS PETER LAURITIS JENSEN HENRY KLOSS JOHN KOSS SR. KEN KUTARAGI DAVID LACHENBRUCH REGINALD AUBREY FESSENDEN GEORGE FEZELL HUGO GERNSBACK ROBERT E. GERSON DR. NICK HOLONYAK JR. PAUL KLIPSCH Hall of Fame 2009 AVERY FISHER JOHN AMBROSE FLEMING ANDREW STEPHEN GROVE STEVE JOBS HOWARD LADD RICHARD FRANKIEL DR. SIDNEY HARMAN ELDRIDGE JOHNSON JAMES LANSING FRANK FREIMANN EDDY HARTENSTEIN KEN KAI WILLIAM POWELL LEAR PAUL GALVIN KARL ELMER HASSEL ROBERT W. GALVIN DR. GEORGE HEILMEIER RAYMOND GATES HEINRICH HERTZ DR. HEINZ GERHÄUSER WILLIAM HEWLETT JERRY KALOV WILLIAM KASUGA ATWATER KENT JACK KILBY ART LEVIS WARREN LIEBERFARB DONALD LINDER JACK LUSKIN www.CE.org 2009 4:12 PM COURTESY OF MOTOROLA MUSEUM © 1999 MOTOROLA, INC. 9/23/09 © BETTMAN/CORBIS CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides 7 9/23/09 4:12 PM Page 8 GUGLIELMO MARCONI NORIO OHGA ROBERT NOYCE RALPH HOWARD GROVES MATHEWS DAVID PACKARD KONOSUKE MATSUSHITA MASAHARU MATSUSHITA COMMANDER EUGENE MCDONALD JR. JOHN MCDONALD DR. WOO PAIK SOL POLK ALEXANDER PONIATOFF VALDEMAR POULSEN GORDON MOORE ALFRED J. RICHARD AKIO MORITA JOHN ROACH EARL MUNTZ AARON NERETIN ED ROBERTS DAVID SARNOFF YUMA SHIRAISHI WILLIAM SHOCKLEY ROSS SIRAGUSA SR. JACK WAYMAN ART WEINBERG © BETTMAN/CORBIS 2009 SAUL MARANTZ KOOPMAN-NEUMER DOBBIN/BOLGLA ASSOC. CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides JACK SAUTER RICHARD SCHULZE HERMON HOSMER SCOTT DR. DIETER SEITZER DR. FRITZ SENNHEISER JOHN J. SHALAM H. GENE SLOTTOW JULES STEINBERG WALTON STINSON SHIZUO TAKANO KENJIRO TAKAYANAGI NEIL TERK NIKOLA TESLA RICHARD E. WILEY ROBERT WILLSON JOHN WINEGARD STEVEN WOZNIAK ALAN WURTZEL VLADIMIR ZWORYKIN RICHARD SHARP JOSEPH TUSHINSKY GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE © BETTMAN/CORBIS STEVEN SASSON 8 www.CE.org CEA Consumer Electronics Association CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides 9/23/09 4:12 PM Page 9 2009 CE Hall of Fame Honorees • Co-Owners, Lechmere hree brothers turned what was literally a horse and buggy business into Lechmere, the well-known New England retail chain. The audio/video/appliance retailer operated for more than 20 years and at its height operated 33 stores in five states. T It all began in 1913 when Russian immigrant Abraham "Pop" Cohen opened a hand made harness shop called Lechmere, located in Lechmere Square, a section of Cambridge, MA. He and his wife, Tillie, had a daughter Nan, and three sons; Maurice, Philip and Norman.After graduating from high school, the kids worked with their father patching tire tubes. World War II rationing drastically reduced the supply of tires and the Lechmere Tire Company suffered. Maurice and Philip served in the army Hall of Fame 2009 To increase sales volume and build a customer base, the brothers called on companies, making deals to sell appliances to their customers at below list prices. They also renamed the business Lechmere Sales. The brothers were store salesmen by day and appliance delivery men by night while their sister ran the office. Their combination of market inventiveness, aggressiveness and savvy enabled the brothers to grow the business. In the late 1940s, they added 6,000 square feet of sales space to their three-story building at 4 Cambridge Street. Because space was limited, they kept only samples on the floor and introduced the in-store pick-up counter, where the customer’s product was delivered by conveyor belts from the stockrooms upstairs. By 1952, sales volume had reached $2 million. In 1956, the brothers bought the former Scully bus garage that was then converted into Lechmere's main retail location. The Cohen’s again expanded to include televisions, records, jewelry, sporting goods, luggage and housewares. To promote the expansion, the brothers printed their own 64-page newspaper, which they mailed to 100,000 homes. Lechmere was also one of the first local retailers to advertise extensively on television. The Cohen brothers were as well known for their promotions as for their merchandise. For instance, every year on Washington's Birthday they sold thousands of cherry pies for 22 cents. In 1956, the brothers distributed $15,000 worth of tickets to the movie "Around the World in 80 Days." They bought out the Ringling Brothers’ circus one night each year, and sold the tickets to "Lechmere Night at the Circus" below cost to their customers. Even the elephant carried a sign reading "I bought my trunk at Lechmere." Despite a recession in the late 1950s, Lechmere’s sales increased 23 percent. Equally famous were the brothers' "picnic sales" each spring, when the entire store's merchandise was moved into the parking lot, and the once-a-year Saturday night "private sale." The brothers doubled Lechmere's space with a steel-framed 100,000 square foot building in 1963 so they could expand Lechmere's selection to include office equipment, bath accessories, books and greeting cards. They also sold tires in the four-bay car servicing garage. Lechmere became such a well-known fixture in the Boston area that many residents believed the local commuter train station was named for the store, rather than vice versa. The brothers’ first store outside Cambridge opened in Dedham in 1965. To fund further expansion, the Cohen’s sold the business to Dayton Hudson in 1969. In the next two years, two more Lechmere stores opened, one in Danvers and another in Springfield. MA.; a fifth store opened in Manchester, NH, in 1977. The chain expanded to more than two dozen locations, was again sold, first to Berkshire Partners in 1989, then in 1994 to Montgomery Ward, which could not maintain what was special about Lechmere, and closed the business three years later.A 2009 survey in Boston found that Lechmere's was the most missed defunct store in the region. By the mid 1970s, all three Cohen brothers had retired. 2009 Maurice Cohen (1915 - 1995) Norman Cohen (1923 - 2008) Philip Cohen (1918 - ) and navy respectively. Norman, the youngest, stayed home to work with their father in the tire shop.After the war, industries converted back to manufacturing consumer goods and returning GIs started families. To fill the increasing demand, the brothers began to stock appliances, buying wherever they could find them – a refrigerator from one distributor and a toaster from another. The Cohen brothers also played a major role in the founding of the National Appliance and TV Merchandisers (NATM). Maurice and his wife, Marilyn, established the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University where he was a trustee until his death in 1995. Norman focused his energy on the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel until his death in 2008. Philip and his wife Bella established a scholarship program for Hebrew University among other philanthropies and reside in South Florida. www.CE.org 9 CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides 9/23/09 plethora of innovations in television technology including electronic news gathering, off-line video tape editing and electronic cinema. tem. Flaherty's fantasy device development analogy helped convince the broadcasting cognoscenti to plow ahead in the competitive development process. HDTV Pioneer During the development of HDTV in the 1980s, he was an early supporter of Japan's high-definition TV developments and the early analog Muse HDTV transmission system. He served as Chairman Dick Wiley's right-hand man on the FCC Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service (ACATS) and was chairman of the ACATS Planning Committee and its technology sub-group. The ACATS pitted competing HDTV systems against each other to devise the best-of-the-best HDTV system for the U.S. Currently, Flaherty is senior vice president of technology for CBS Broadcasting, responsible for international standards and TV technology applied to CBS broadcasting. est known as the developer of electronic news gathering (ENG) technology and father of high-definition television (HDTV), Dr. Joseph Flaherty has been involved in these and many other broadcasting technologies and committees for over half a century. 2009 He was born on Christmas Day 1930 in Kansas City, MO. His father, Joseph A. Flaherty Sr., was chief engineer of WDAF and WDAF-TV, the radio and then television stations of the Kansas City Star newspaper from the 1930s until his retirement. Under his father's tutelage, Flaherty was issued a ham radio license, K2IQN, in 1948. He graduated from the University of Rockhurst in Kansas City in 1952 and then served two years in the U.S.Army Signal Corps. During the Korean conflict, Flaherty built the first TV studio for the army at the Signal Corps Pictorial Center in New York to produce training programs using television rather than film technology. Flaherty began his professional career in 1955 with NBC in New York as a television engineer, before moving to CBS in 1957. Two years later, he became the network's director of technical facilities planning. In 1967, he was promoted to general manager, and then subsequently appointed vice president and general manager of CBS' Engineering and Development Department. During his 23-year tenure in this position, Flaherty was responsible for a www.CE.org Page 10 Dr. Joseph Flaherty (1930 - ) B 10 4:12 PM Considered the dean of broadcasting engineers, Flaherty, along with Wiley and key members of ACATS and HDTV system proponents, directed the rollout of the ACATS competitive development plan. In his ACATS position and as a member of the Advanced Television Test Center (ATTC) board of directors, Flaherty helped oversee the test operations of all the digital HDTV systems. Flaherty worked with Wiley throughout the nine-year HDTV development period, helping to achieve unanimous approval of the full ACATS Committee of what is now a near worldwide standard. Flaherty also continues his HDTV work in the International Telecommunications Union (ITU-R) and as a member of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) and the North American Broadcasters Association (NABA) boards of directors. Among the honors and awards Flaherty has earned in broadcasting are two lifetime achievement Emmys, one for "Lifetime Achievement in Contributions to the Development and Improvement of the Science and Technology of Television" in October 1994, and the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award, in November 1996. In 2002, he was decorated by the president of France as an Officer of the French Legion of Honor, and, in April 2006, Flaherty was presented the NAB Award of Honor for "Introducing High-Definition Television to the World." Even though he was the first to recognize the potential of HDTV and a digital approach, Flaherty was famously quoted as saying "We'll have digital television in a standard 6 MHz channel the same day we have a gravity insulator." The quote, however, is usually misinterpreted as sounding as if he thought digital HDTV was an impossibility. He was against the idea of stopping the then-current HDTV development process, opining that a practical gravity insulator could have been developed in the time it would take an ad hoc group to devise an all-digital HDTV sys- CEA Consumer Electronics Association 9/23/09 4:12 PM Page 11 Karl Elmer Hassel (1896-1975) Mathews' earlier creations. The company's first products, made with help from friends M.B. Lowe and Larry Dutton, were built on the kitchen table of the Mathews' family home in Chicago. Co-Founder, Zenith CRL soon grew, and the pair moved their operations into a twocar garage located a few blocks away. Half of the garage was devoted to manufacturing, while the other half to Mathews' amateur radio station, "9ZNith". The station was soon able to be heard worldwide. arl Hassel, born January 25, 1896 in Sharon, PA, displayed a passion for the hottest new technology at the turn of the century – radio. It was this passion that would lead him to co-found the company that would later become Zenith. K Hassel was granted his amateur radio license in 1912, and went on to attend Westminster College from 1914 to 1915 before he transferred to the University of Pittsburgh.At Pittsburgh, Hassel made use of his knowledge of his hobby to operate the campus radio transmitter, 8XI, one of the most powerful in the country at that time. He got the job because he was the only one on campus able to operate the equipment.After the U.S. entry into World War I in April 1917, the government shut down all amateur stations. Hassel was one of three operators to pass the government test, and ran the station until it was shut down a year later. With the end of amateur radio broadcasting, Hassel decided to join the navy. He became a radio code instructor at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station near Chicago where he befriended Ralph Mathews. Thanks to their radio expertise, the two were then transferred to Naval Intelligence, which operated out of the Commonwealth Edison Building in Chicago. After leaving the navy, the two friends decided to go into business together. They founded the Chicago Radio Laboratory (CRL) in 1919, and began to manufacture amateur radio gear based on Hall of Fame 2009 ing romantic interests may have broken up their business partnership. Mathews married Mildred Josephine Finn, but the two divorced in the late 1920s. Hassel married her in 1928, a union that lasted until his death in 1975. Hassel served as Zenith's chief engineer for 55 years. The company was further expanded by an investment by Eugene F. McDonald, Jr., and began producing up to 15 Z-Nith brand two component (the Amplifigon detector and amplifier and the Paragon tuner) regenerative receivers per day. By 1921, the newly dubbed Zenith Radio Corp. was moved into a 3,000-square foot factory at 6433 Ravenswood Ave in Chicago. The new name became official on June 30, 1923. With capital of $500,000, the company moved again to a large factory on the 3600 block of South Iron Street in Chicago. 2009 CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides Under McDonald's leadership, the company began its run as a pioneering radio manufacturer, beginning in 1924 with the Companion, considered the first modern portable radio, and in 1926, Model 27, its first radio powered by AC instead of batteries. Zenith annual sales grew from about $5 million in 1928 to $11 million in 1930, when it employed around 450 workers. During World War II, the company expanded thanks to military contracts for bomb fuses and other devices. In the late 1940s, Zenith went into TV manufacturing and became the number one maker of black-and-white sets throughout the 1960s and 1970s.Annual sales reached $100 million in 1950 and approached $500 million by the mid-1960s, when the company had more than 15,000 employees. Mathews and Hassel shared more than an enthusiasm for radio – they both were married to the same woman, and these conflict- www.CE.org 11 CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides 9/23/09 Dr. Irwin M. Jacobs (1933 - ) Co-Founder of Qualcomm/CDMA Technology childhood filled with assembling contraptions out of milk bottles, lights and electric motors led to a career in engineering, and the discovery of an arcane World War II technology that led Dr. Irwin Jacobs to create CDMA, the dominant cell phone technology in the U.S., and found Qualcomm, the largest cell phone chip maker in the world. 2009 A Born in New Bedford, MA, on October 18, 1933, and a tinkerer since the age of eight, Jacobs' interest in science was further stoked by a high school chemistry and math teacher.A photography buff, Jacobs also earned money by developing film in a makeshift darkroom at his family's home. He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1956 from Cornell University, then a master's of science in 1957 and doctor of science degrees in electrical engineering from MIT in 1959.After graduation, Jacobs was hired as an assistant/associate professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he co-authored a basic textbook on digital communications, Principles of Communication Engineering, which remains in use today. From 1966 to 1972 he taught computer science and engineering at the University of California, San Diego. In Los Angeles in 1968, while still teaching, Jacobs, along with Andrew Viterbi and Leonard Kleinrock, formed Linkabit, a com- 12 www.CE.org 4:12 PM Page 12 munications technology consulting company. Linkabit worked primarily on defense communications for the government. Linkabit started as a once-a-week consulting company, but after a few months it was clear the company required more attention introducing the first of Ku-band very small aperture earth terminals (VSATs), commercial TDMA wireless phones, and the VideoCipher satellite-to-home TV system. When Linkabit grew from a few part-timers to more than 1,000 employees, Jacobs quit his teaching job for full time corporate life. He spent the next decade-plus running and growing Linkabit. In August 1980, Linkabit was sold to M/A-COM for $25 million, and Jacobs served on the merged company's board of directors. In April 1985, Jacobs retired. His retirement was short-lived. On July 1, 1985, 20 months after the first cell phone networks went live, Jacobs convened a meeting with six former Linkabit employees – Linkabit co-founder Viterbi, Franklin Antonio,Adelia Coffman,Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen and Harvey White — at his San Diego home. The group decided to build a "QUALity COMMunications" company. Jacobs became chairman and CEO of the new Qualcomm. The company started out providing contract research and development services, with limited product manufacturing, for the wireless telecommunications market. One of the company's goals was to develop a commercial product, which eventually resulted in the OmniTRACS tracking system for trucks in 1988. OmniTRACS has since grown into the largest satellite-based commercial mobile system for the transportation industry. transmission could also be used for communications. Initially developed by Lamarr and Antheil as a method to make radioguided torpedoes more difficult to jam, Jacobs believed this secure radio communications technology could be used for cell phones. He asked Qualcomm co-founder Klein Gilhousen to explore the idea. In 1989, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) endorsed a digital technology called time division multiple access (TDMA). Three months later, Qualcomm introduced the result of Jacobs' brainstorm, code division multiple access (CDMA), which Jacobs believed was superior. Initially, CDMA was dismissed as inferior to TDMA and, for a few years, CDMAbased carriers battled with TDMA carriers. But CDMA phones proved to provide better clarity and higher security. Under Jacob's leadership, Qualcomm has become the top chipset supplier in the wireless industry with more than 15,000 employees worldwide at 144 locations generating $3 billion.As of April 24, 2009, there were more than 780 million 3G CDMA subscribers worldwide, which include 40 percent of cell phone subscribers in the U.S. Qualcomm also has developed 3G versions of CDMA, CDMA2000 and W-CDMA, which could increase the number of CDMA-based cell phones. Jacobs served as chief executive officer of Qualcomm until July 2005 when he was succeeded by his son, Paul, and was chairman of the company's board of directors until March 2009. Heading home from a consulting job in 1985, it dawned on Jacobs that a World War II technology developed by movie star Hedy Lamarr and music composer George Antheil based on Nikola Tesla's frequency hopping concept that postulated that multiple frequencies that could be used to send a single radio CEA Consumer Electronics Association 9/23/09 Steve Jobs (1955 - ) Co-Founder, Apple ne of the most iconic figures in the world of high technology, Steve Jobs co-founded the company that ignited the PC business, revolutionized portable music and how we buy music, and remade the cell phone industry – while helping to create the leading animation movie studio in the world. O Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 and raised in the area he would help make famous as Silicon Valley. He was adopted and named Steven Paul by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, CA. The Jobs family moved to nearby Los Altos, where Jobs attended Homestead High. He worked summers at Hewlett-Packard, where he met a recent dropout of the University of California at Berkeley, Steve Wozniak.After graduating high school, Jobs attended Reed College in Portland, OR, for a semester, but dropped out.While auditing philosophy classes he also worked in an apple orchard. In 1974, he went to work for video game pioneer Atari. After saving some money, Jobs went on a spiritual journey to India.When he returned, he began to attend meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club, where he and Wozniak set out to build and market a computer for the home. To fund the new company named Apple in honor of Jobs' orchard work, Jobs sold his VW microbus and Wozniak his HP calculator. The Apple I sold for $666 in 1976 and was essentially a single Hall of Fame 2009 4:12 PM Page 13 motherboard, a video interface and some ROM into which programs could be loaded.Apple I earned Jobs and Wozniak $774,000, which the pair plowed into their next product, the Apple II, introduced in April 1977. Considered one of the first PCs, the Apple II was comprised of a CPU, keyboard and disk drives and could be connected to a color TV. Jobs recruited marketing muscle as well as venture capitalists. In three years, the Apple II and its successors earned the company $139 million and made Apple, Jobs and Wozniak instant icons. Apple went public in 1980 and, two years later, its sales reached $583 million. In the early 1980s,Apple suffered the failures of the Apple III and the $10,000 Lisa, which was the first PC to use a mouse and a graphic user interface, developed by PARC, the Palo Alto Research Center. In 1984,Apple produced the Macintosh, introduced by an Orwellian SuperBowl ad. However, the Macintosh's success led to conflict within Apple. Jobs saw his role marginalized and he resigned in 1985. During the next decade, Jobs created a computer company called NeXT and also bought a Lucasfilm company called The Graphics Group, later renamed Pixar. Pixar's pioneering computer animated films have won numerous Oscars and have grossed more than $4 billion worldwide. In 2006, Pixar merged with The Walt Disney Company, with Jobs becoming the largest shareholder. online music store to create a hardware/content "ecosystem" that enabled Apple to capture and maintain a dominant share in both the hardware and music businesses.Apple has sold more than 200 million iPods and in April 2008, Apple became the country's largest music retailer. The iPod also spawned a cottage industry in add-on products such as cases, auto connectors and speakers. As a result, the iPod has become the most accessorized product in CE history. In 2007,Apple revolutionized the cell phone industry with its iPhone that also had a hardware/software ecosystem.Apple encouraged third-party developers to create small applications, or apps, for both the iPhone and the iPod. Today there are more than 65,000 iPhone apps available.Within two years,Apple sold more than 15 million iPhones, making Apple the world's third largest cell phone maker. iPhone's touchscreen smartphone/application store model was quickly emulated by several cell phone makers. 2009 CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides In early 2009, Jobs had a liver transplant but returned to work in June. He oversees a company with 35,000 employees, annual revenues of more than $32 billion and a record of technological innovation and sales success. Jobs returned to an ailing Apple in 1996 to become interim CEO. He opened the first Apple retail stores in 1997 and the all-in-one iMac computer in 1998, re-energizing the company, its stock price and its reputation. In 2000, the "interim" was removed from Jobs' CEO title. A year later,Apple introduced the iPod, the first commercially successful digital music player.Apple linked the iPod to iTunes, software which combined digital music management with an www.CE.org 13 CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides 9/23/09 Ralph Howard Groves Mathews (1897-1982) Co-Founder, Zenith orn almost exactly one year after his to-be business partner Karl Hassel, Ralph H.G. Mathews shared Hassel's enthusiasm for radio. Born in 1897, Mathews had built his first amateur radio station by 1908.While attending Lane Technical High School in Chicago, Mathews built his first radio transmitter in 1912. 2009 B Also while in school, Mathews perfected a distinctive aluminum saw-tooth rotary spark gap that produced a distinctive sound instantly recognizable to other hobbyists. The popularity of the spark gap disk led to a small post-graduation business building radio components for amateurs and helped him raise funds for college. Mathews supplemented this income by working during summers between 1915 and 1917 as a shipboard radio operator for $25-$30 a month. He was appointed trunk line manager for the center region of the U.S. in the new Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL) in March 1916, and was elected to the ARRL Board of Directors in February 1917. Mathews also changed his radio call letters from 9IK to 9ZN. Like Hassel, Mathews eventually shifted to the U.S. Navy when amateur broadcasts were shut down in 1917. The two became friends in the navy, united by their love of radio.When they decided to go into business to form the Chicago Radio Laboratory (CRL) in early 1919, they first lived and worked at 1316 Carmen Ave. in Chicago, Mathews' parents' home. Their first products were built on the kitchen table, and Mathews' father, 14 www.CE.org 4:12 PM Page 14 who worked for a printing company, printed the first CRL catalog in 1919. The two focused on manufacturing a more developed version of Mathews' spark gap disk and other amateur radio gear. Although literally a tabletop operation,the company owned a valuable Armstrong regenerative receiver patent license,which was negotiated by Mathews in 1920.The company had no inventory – they manufactured product as orders came in.Along with three workmen, they built 12 radios at a time,which took two to three weeks,with oak ply cabinets made by a cabinet maker on Clark Street. Following an investment by Eugene F. McDonald, Jr., CRL grew and became known as Zenith Radio Corp. Along with the size of the company, the volume of radios manufactured also increased. By the mid-1960s, the company had more than 15,000 employees. Mathews, however, didn't stay with the company long enough to enjoy its later success. Mathews gave up day-to-day responsibilities at Zenith in 1928 and established R.G.H. Mathews & Associates Sales Engineering Consultants. In 1933, now officially an ex-Zenith employee, he created Ford, Browne & Mathews Advertising Agency of Chicago. He then re-joined the navy during WWII, assisting with recruiting. In 1954, he joined Magnavox and then worked for Westinghouse starting in 1957. After stints at several other companies during the next decade, he retired in 1967. Mathews and Hassel shared more than an enthusiasm for radio they both were married to the same woman, and these conflicting romantic interests may have been responsible for breaking up their business partnership. Mathews married Mildred Josephine Finn, but the two divorced in the late 1920s. After retiring, Mathews moved to Mexico, where he was a lay leader of St.Andrew’s Anglican Church in Chapala, Jalisco. He died in 1982. CEA Consumer Electronics Association 9/23/09 Aaron Neretin (1928 - ) Editor and Publisher, Merchandising Magazine fixture at consumer electronics shows for more than a half century, trade editor, publisher and market analyst Aaron Neretin has been and remains an integral member of the consumer electronics community. A Born in Manhattan, NY on May 30, 1928, the son of Minnie and Hillel, a stationer and glazier, Neretin was raised primarily in the Crotona Park section of the Bronx.Attending Bronx High School of Science, he showed an early interest in becoming a doctor. But while growing up, he also dabbled in creative writing, composing short stories about neighborhood life that drew praise and encouragement from his parents. 4:12 PM Page 15 into Home Furnishings Daily, then simply to HFD in 1952. In 1965, Neretin was recruited by Billboard Publications to become editor and publisher of Merchandising Magazine. Neretin remained editor and publisher after Gralla Publications bought Merchandising in 1973, and left the publication five years later when it was sold to NAPCO. After leaving Merchandising in 1978, Neretin formed his own company, Neretin Associates, which provides retail market intelligence to industry executives via interviews with key electronics retailers and marketplace research. The firm remains active today as a source of CE retail research at the retail level. Neretin has received numerous industry awards, such as the NAME from the United Jewish Appeal and from the Consumer Electronics Association. 2009 CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides After a three-year stint in the army, serving in Japan during the U.S. occupation from 1945 to 1948 and then graduating from New York University on the GI Bill, Neretin decided to pursue a career in writing. Neretin started by applying first at The New York Times.After being turned down, Neretin applied at a number of newspaper publishers.At Fairchild Publications in 1950, Neretin took what job he was offered – copy boy for all the company's trade publications. After spending a year or so as a copy boy, a position opened up on the copy desk at Retailing Daily. Neretin advanced quickly, moving from the copy desk to reporter to major appliances section editor to city editor for the publication, which first morphed Hall of Fame 2009 www.CE.org 15 CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides 9/23/09 John J. Shalam (1933 - ) Chairman and Founder, Audiovox Corp. ohn Shalam is the epitome of the American dream. In 1948, the 14-year-old Shalam, his parents and three sisters sailed past the Statue of Liberty ready to start a new life in America. Today, more than 60 years later, he continues to lead Audiovox, the $600 million company he built that is one of the strongest mobile and consumer electronics entities in the market today. 2009 J Born December 10, 1933 in Alexandria, Egypt, Shalam was the only son of Vicky and Murad Shalam, one of the city's more successful merchants. He grew up watching his father build his own import/export business.Were it not for the growing anti-semitism in Egypt precipitated by the 1948 Israeli war of independence, Shalam would likely have taken his family business to the next level. The family took up residence in New York in 1948, and Shalam attended the Peekskill Military Academy and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated with a BS in economics in 1954. Shalam began his career working for the Continental Grain Company in New York. It did not take long for the entrepreneur in him to take over and, within four years, he partnered with a friend to form his own small trading company, which handled sales of equipment to schools and other institutions. Four years later, he founded the Custom Imports Company, which sold Japanese-made goods such as baseball gloves, fishing reels, 16 www.CE.org 4:12 PM Page 16 porcelain dinnerware, photo albums, transistor radios and, in 1965, 2,000 car radios. well as to establish a presence in Europe, Latin America and, most recently,Asia. Those 2,000 car radios would be the cosmic accident from which Audiovox would be born. Stuck with a shipment that a client had ordered and then cancelled, Shalam faced his first excess inventory problem. He pounded the pavement until he unloaded the radios and, satisfied he was out of the car audio business, celebrated with a ski trip to Vermont and treated himself to a champagne toast. Shalam continues to serve on several CEA committees, and is chairman of the Investment Committee. He also was instrumental in CEA expanding into the cellular industry. He established CEA’s Wireless Communications Division in 2001, and served as its first chairman. But customers started calling looking for more car radios. He initially told each he was out of the car radio business, but by the fourth call he realized maybe he ought not to be and Audiovox was born.Audiovox went on to play a key role in establishing the after market car audio, security and mobile video businesses. Audiovox has ridden the wave of technological innovation from its inception from simple car radios to four- and eight-track tape players to cassette and CD players to today's iPod/Bluetooth/navigation-ready systems. By 1975,Audiovox crossed the $100 million sales threshold and moved beyond the core car audio market into car security products and then cellular phones. To fuel the rapid growth of the company,Audiovox went public in 1987 on the American Stock Exchange and moved to NASDAQ in 2000. By 1998, the company had sold one million wireless handsets. Married to Jane for 40 years, the Shalams have three sons Ari, David and Marc and six grandchildren. In the New York area, the family is known for its support of a variety of philanthropic causes. Shalam also is an avid horseman. In 1997, in the shadow of that same Statue of Liberty, Shalam, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, given to U.S. citizens who exhibit outstanding personal and professional qualities while maintaining the richness of their heritage. In 2004, Shalam was instrumental in the sale of the company's cellular division for $323 million, and Audiovox has since been busy expanding its CE business, acquiring some of the most respected brands in the industry including RCA,Acoustic Research, Jensen,Advent, Phase Linear, Code Alarm and Terk. Although Shalam passed the day-to-day control of Audiovox to his son, he is the company's majority shareholder and continues to play a significant role in guiding the company's strategic direction, such as the decision to expand into the accessory market as CEA Consumer Electronics Association 9/23/09 Walton Stinson (1948 - ) Co-Founder and President, ListenUp; Co-Founder PARA eing the co-founder of one of the most successful A/V specialty retailers in the country, ListenUp, based in Denver, CO, would be considered an achievement, but Walt Stinson also is the co-founder and the first president of the Professional Audio/Video Retailers' Association, (PARA), the trade association for 250 professional audio, video, home theater and custom electronics specialty dealers. Stinson has been dubbed the dean of A/V specialty retailers. B He was born in Little Rock,AR, on July 2, 1948.At age 10 he heard his first shortwave broadcast and a year later enrolled in a summer program in electronics.At Webster Groves High School Stinson had his own ham radio station before earning a technical diploma in electronics. He attended Knox College in Galesburg, IL, where he built and repaired stereo systems and, during summers, worked as a customer engineer for IBM. He graduated from Knox in 1970, where he met his future partner, Steve Weiner. In 1971, he landed a job at LaSalle Electronics, a western Illinois parts distributor, where Weiner, also worked. Both migrated to electronics when the company's component stereo department opened. In 1972, Stinson left LaSalle and founded KVR Research with Weiner to study sound reproduction, psychoacoustics and the CE market. It was while exploring career opportunities at the Chicago Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 1972 that Stinson decided Hall of Fame 2009 4:12 PM Page 17 to open a store. Stinson,Weiner and Stinson's wife, Mary Kay, drove to 15 major markets gathering demographic projections from chambers of commerce and information about existing audio retailers. Back in Galesburg, the trio selected Denver as the most appealing market. ListenUp was incorporated on October 10, 1972 and the store opened with just $10,000 in capital. Mary Kay joined the business in 1974 and the three remain involved in the company’s management. In 1982, Stinson set a world record in the American Radio Relay League International DX Morse Code competition, and also founded Retail Computer Management Systems, a dealer-owned developer of enterprise software. In 1984, he co-founded Assured Systems, a dealer-owned distribution and marketing company. Assured merged with AudioVideo Independent Dealers (AVID) in 2002 to create Home Entertainment Source (HES), a division of the $4 billion AVB/Brand Source buying group. The first year was slow but Stinson's radio and electronics background launched the company into high gear when he bartered broadcast engineering services for radio advertising time in 1973. Stinson and ListenUp produced hundreds of recordings of jazz, rock and blues legends such as Miles Davis, BB King and Bob Dylan. The tag line, "Sound by ListenUp," was ubiquitous on the radio and at concert venues and established the retailer as a major CE player in Colorado. This led in 1978 to the ListenUp commercial division, which designs, sells and services large scale audio video and control systems for commercial and institutional clients, as well as performance venues, including the famed Mile High Stadium, Folsom Field and the Rainbow Music Hall. Meanwhile, ListenUp sales grew 30 percent per year for the first seven years. In 1983 and 1984, Stinson helped to launch the CD in the U.S., serving as a delegate to the Compact Disc Group and appearing frequently in the media. Returning from Japan in 1983, he was questioned by U.S. Customs about the shiny discs in his luggage. Stinson's gamble on CDs paid off – ListenUp's revenue doubled in the next three years to $10 million. In 1983 Stinson enrolled in the University of Colorado Executive Program, where he earned his MBA. From 1989 to 1994, Stinson was a director at the Madrigal Audio Labs and, from 1998 to 2004, was a director of the American Radio Relay League. Since 2004, Stinson has served as vice president and secretary/treasurer of the Progressive Retailers Organization (PRO GROUP), a $2 billion annual buying group. Today, ListenUp has six stores in Colorado and Oregon with 110 employees. 2009 CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides In 1979, Stinson received a letter from retailer David Beatty, owner of Beatty Electronics proposing a meeting to discuss the challenges facing independent audio dealers. On October 17 dealers gathered at the Airport Hilton in Kansas City to form PARA. Beatty was elected PARA president, Stinson vice president.When Beatty retired six months later, Stinson assumed the PARA presidency, serving out Beatty's term, then was re-elected to a two-year term in 1981. He also served as PARA's chairman from 1983-1985 and as general advisor to the board from 1996-2002. In 1999, he received the first PARA Founders Award. PARA merged with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) in 2004. www.CE.org 17 CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides 9/23/09 Neil Terk (1947-2003) 2009 Founder, Terk Technologies e designed award-winning record album covers but in the middle of a successful career as a graphics designer and photographer, Neil Terk decided to take a left turn into the consumer electronics industry, founding a company that became the most recognizable name in radio and TV antennas. H A native New Yorker, Terk was born on December 5, 1947 in Manhattan, but grew up in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens.After attending P.S. 164, Terk spent grades 7-12 at the now-defunct Rhodes Prep school in Manhattan. He majored in architecture at Temple University for a year before transferring to the Philadelphia College of Art and was graduated with a degree in industrial design. 18 4:12 PM Page 18 Music to Make Love By by Solomon Burke, and Making Music by Dire Straits, as well as albums from Chuck Berry, Etta James, Aretha Franklin and Bob Marley. In the mid-1970s, Terk founded two design companies: Paper Faces, where he designed and created composite sheets and catalog books for large fashion model agencies including Ford, Elle and Wilhelmina, and, Neil Terk & Co., a production company. He also worked as a consultant to such companies as Pepsi, Playtex and Blimpie, designing logos, packaging, catalogs, point-of-purchase materials and store interiors.When computer-based desktop publishing came into vogue, Terk sold the companies. In 1985, Cobra approached Terk about distributing a new FM antenna the Italian company planned on selling in the U.S. Terk convinced Cobra if the antenna looked better, it would sell better. Cobra agreed. Terk applied his experience in modern industrial design and reworked the antenna under the auspices of the new Terk Technologies. After a brief tenure in Zurich where he became a convert to the Bauhaus design philosophy, he sent out a resume consisting of a glossy nude of himself with a dollar bill glued across his private parts and his accomplishments pasted on the flip side. This unusual self-advertisement got him a job designing photo equipment in New Jersey. When this re-designed antenna sold well, Terk realized he'd found his calling. His goal was to design antennas so beautiful that consumers would be eager to display them. Two years later, Terk unveiled the company's first product, the Terk Pi AM/FM antenna. The two-piece Pi was the better mouse trap of radio antennas. Its outer six-inch adjustable diameter directional loop AM antenna combined with a concentric fixed disk FM antenna, and included an amplifier to help boost weak radio signals and a noise-free transistor. This unique physical and technical configuration represented a departure from old-fashioned rabbit ears. A year later, Terk got a job as creative director for Chess Janus Records in 1972. He designed more than 500 album covers including Cosmic Slop by Funkadelic, Big Bad Bo by Bo Diddley, The powerful Pi – the Greek letter for determining the circumference of a circle – could pull in signals from radio stations as far as 50 miles away. The Pi was as successful commercially as it was www.CE.org technically and aesthetically, selling in the hundreds of thousands. Not only did the Pi fulfill Terk's technical and design goals, it was so beautiful it was selected to be sold through the Museum of Modern Art in 1988. To better handle masses of nearby signals in urban areas, Terk later unveiled the $20 FM+. Over the next 14 years, Terk created and sold indoor and outdoor antennas for HDTV and analog TV, XM satellite radio, Lojack, incar cell, DirecTV, as well as a full line of installation hardware products and kits and the Leapfrog wireless multi-room A/V distribution and control systems. By the mid 1990s, Terk's sales reached $50 million. In 1997, Terk moved his company to Hauppauge Industrial Park. Also an innovator, Terk created new CE categories that solved problems such as the Volume Regulator, which kept TV volume of normally louder commercials at the same volume as regular programming, while taking interior design into consideration. This successful combination of form and function heavily influenced other gadget makers. Terk also was involved in the industry, serving on the CEA Executive Board, its board of directors, and as chairman for both the Accessories Division and Antenna Subdivision. In 2001, Terk sold half interest in his company to Topspin, a venture capital firm.A few months later, the non-smoker Terk was diagnosed with lung cancer and passed away in 2003. Terk Technologies is now a subsidiary of Audiovox. CEA Consumer Electronics Association CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides 9/23/09 4:12 PM Page 19 Honoring Industry Greats FCC Chairman,ACATS Chairman ichard Wiley did not own a company or retail outlet and did not invent or help develop a device or technology. But as chairman of a federal advisory, the former chairman of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) played a pivotal role in the development and subsequent adoption of the current DTV standard by advocating an all-digital system and creating the cooperative Grand Alliance that developed today's digital and high-definition television standards. R Dick Wiley was born in Peoria, IL, on July 20, 1934, and lived primarily in suburban Chicago. Wiley got his introduction to TV when his father, Joseph, a manufacturer's agent for Edison electronics products, bought the family a Philco set in the early 1950s. While in college,Wiley planned to become a history and political science teacher when a professor suggested he take the LSAT and pursue a law career.After passing the test,Wiley got a full scholarship to Northwestern.After receiving both his balchelor’s and graduate degree from Northwestern,Wiley married, then joined the Army and served in the Judge Advocate's Corp as an appellate Hall of Fame 2009 specialist at the Pentagon from 1959-1962. He then earned his master of laws degree from Georgetown in 1962. Interested in regulatory law,Wiley got his first job in the private sector at a Chicago firm with a large antitrust specialty. He practiced successfully for eight years when he traveled to Washington, D.C., to apply for the job as FTC general counsel. That job wasn't open, however, but he was told the same position at the FCC would be open a few months later. In October 1970, he got the job. Two years later, President Nixon nominated Wiley to a term as an FCC commissioner and, in 1974, he was appointed chairman. Wiley served under three presidents – Nixon, Ford and Carter – during his tenure at the FCC. As chairman,Wiley believed that competition fostered innovation and worked to open up closed industries. He was instrumental in opening up both landline telephone and the nascent cell phone businesses to multiple carriers, allowing Sprint and MCI to compete and the cell phone industry to explode, and helped give birth to the modern satellite and cable TV businesses.Wiley retired as chairman in October 1977. From the late 1960s through the early 1980s, wireless telephone companies such as Motorola petitioned the FCC to open up more spectrum sliced from local television spectrum. Broadcasters kept their spectrum by claiming they would develop high-definition television. In mid-1987, the FCC asked Wiley to chair the newly-formed Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service (ACATS), which would oversee and adjudicate the varying DTV development efforts. evision channel while transitioning the country to a second digital channel. He also defined what HDTV would require: at least twice the number of scanning lines of conventional television. After six frustrating years of competitive development and testing, Wiley proposed in May 1993 that the varying companies come together in a grand alliance to develop the final standards. Wiley also had to cope with complaints and suggestions from Hollywood as well as the computer industry as the standard was being defined. On November 28, 1995, with the technical work on the DTV standards completed,Wiley chaired the final ACATS meeting.After jockeying by both the FCC and the Congress, the DTV standards were adopted by the commission on Christmas Eve 1996, nine years after Wiley began his work at ACATS. In 1997,Wiley was awarded an Emmy for his work on HDTV. In 1993, he was named to the Broadcasting & Cable magazine Hall of Fame, and in 1999, he was named one of the top “100 Men of the Century” by the magazine. In 1996 he was recognized by EIA with a medal of honor, and, in March 2002, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the National Association of Broadcasters. 2009 Richard E. Wiley (1934 - ) Since 1983,Wiley has been managing partner of Wiley Rein LLP, a Washington, D.C. law firm with nearly 300 lawyers and some 80 communications law professionals, and has no plans to retire. Wiley recommended that the changeover to digital transmission employ simulcasting maintaining the current six MHz analog tel- www.CE.org 19 CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides 9/23/09 4:12 PM Page 20 CE Achievements he fast pace of technological innovation makes the CE industry a thrilling market to watch. It is the foresight of individuals such as those honored in the CE Hall of Fame that makes such innovation possible. Like no other industry, CE devices build upon each other making possible further technologies and products. T 2009 Two decades ago, the advances of recent years would have been unthinkable as the technologies had not yet been developed. It is impossible to comprehend our present location in the history of innovation without a solid understanding of the progress made in years past. A look back over the past two decades gives us an example of the patterns of technological progress. These technologies, products and services will make possible the innovations of tomorrow. Here's a look at some of the events that have shaped our world beginning with the first HDTV system proposal 20 years ago ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 2009 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Analog TV broadcasting ends. Mobile DTV standard established and first products go on sale. Video Bluetooth standard announced. Microsoft opens retail outlets. First solar-powered cell phone announced. Portable HD radio receivers become available. In-home wireless HD video connectivity standards announced. Several 3D HDTV standards demonstrated. New Wi-Fi 802.11n specification, enabling throughput of 100 Mbps for wireless local transmission of HDTV, is approved by IEEE. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 20 ■ First "green" CES. Digital TV converter coupon program begins and converter boxes go on sale. HDTVs with Web access become widely available. www.CE.org First Tru2Way interactive cable TV set-top boxes (STBs) and HDTVs become available. Blu-ray becomes dominant high-definition DVD format. Rollout of nationwide WiMax mobile wireless broadband network begins. First ultra-light netbook laptop PCs go on sale. Most online music retailers end copy protection and restrictions. First Blu-ray discs with extra PC-compatible digital copies included go on sale. Sirius and XM satellite radio providers merge. 2007 ■ 2008 High-definition movie rental downloads begin. First two-way personal navigation device (PND) goes on sale. OLED HDTVs unveiled. First cell phone with near field communications (NFC) technology available. Long term evolution (LTE) wireless broadband network standard ratified. Pico pocket video projectors go on sale. First ultra-thin LCD HDTVs go on sale. Mobile DTV standards and testing announced. First Blu-ray players with streaming movie services included announced. In-room cable-replacement WirelessHD (WiHD) technology finalized. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 2005 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ First hard disk drive-based camcorders go on sale. FCC requires mandatory inclusion of ATSC HDTV tuner in 50 percent of all 24-inch to 35-inch HDTVs by July 1. First PCs with dual processors become available. First stand-alone VoIP phones introduced. Consumer digital cameras reach 10-megapixel resolution. A/V home theater receivers with HDMI connectivity and direct satellite radio connectivity go on sale. First portable MP3 player/satellite radio recorders announced. Flash media card capacity reaches 4 GB. First HDTV with built-in HD-DVR hits the market. 2004 ■ ■ Apple introduces its iPhone. The first cell phones capable of receiving broadcast television are available. "Inkless" printing without ribbons or cartridges is available. The Windows Vista operating system launches. CES celebrates its 40th anniversary. First videogame systems with high-definition DVD players available. First OCAP (open cable applications platform) cable systems begin operation and first OCAP-enabled TVs in stores. President George W. Bush signs legislation to end analog television broadcasting February 17, 2009. First 1080p plasma HDTVs go on sale. First solid-state, high-definition camcorder hits the market. Digital TV sales to dealers surpass sales of analog TVs for the first time. ■ ■ ■ First U.S. 3G cellular network services and phones announced. Combination cable HDTV STB and HDTV DVRs and CableCARD-equipped DTVs go on sale. First flash memory camcorders go on sale. First city-wide Wi-Fi networks activated. USB-equipped flash memory "thumb drives" go on sale. 2006 ■ First consumer high-definition DVD player/recorders go on sale in the U.S. CEA Consumer Electronics Association 9/23/09 First HD radio receivers announced. Touchscreen tablet PCs introduced. Commercial voice-over-Internet (VoIP) phone service begins. Digital wireless home networking standard using 5-GHz frequency announced. First HTiB systems with built-in DVD recorders announced. First HDTV camcorders enter the marketplace. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 2002 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ First legal online music sites launched. First combination cell phones/digital cameras available. Blu-ray and red laser high-definition DVD recording standards announced. High-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) digital video connector format announced. TV manufacturers and cable operators announce “plug-and-play” specifications for HDTV set-top boxes and HDTVs. First car-based digital music hard disk drives introduced. FCC begins limited deployment of ultra wideband (UWB) wireless data network technology. ■ ■ ■ Satellite radio broadcasting begins. Microsoft and Sony introduce Internet gaming. Next-generation, higher speed USB 2.0 and FireWire IEEE-1394b standards announced. Car-based MP3 burner introduced. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ First Bluetooth-enabled products launched. The first portable audio hard disk drive players enter the marketplace. Secure high-capacity solid-state flash media formats and products introduced. Combination cell phone/MP3 players available. CEA inducts its first class of industry leaders into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame. Hall of Fame 2009 DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, DVD-R and DVD+R formats introduced. CD-recordable decks first sold. The first HDTV sets sold at retail. TV manufacturers and cable operators agree on IEEE-1394 (FireWire) with 5C copy protection. Super-fast DSL Internet access using plain phones lines made available. MPEG-4 digital video compression technology adopted. Special Interest Group (SIG) for Bluetooth wireless data communication standard formed. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Smartphones allow access to the Internet and e-mail. The Wi-Fi (802.11) wireless local area network (WLAN) Ethernet standard adopted. ■ ■ ■ GPS auto navigation systems are marketed in the U.S. Direct broadcast system (DBS) receivers introduced. The first digital still cameras are available for sale in the U.S. FCC begins auction of 1900 MHz digital PCS bands for digital cell phone service. 1993 ■ ■ ■ ■ The Grand Alliance forms to develop the HDTV system. First plasma display screens available. Personal digital assistants (PDA) introduced. The first wireless headset portable CD player marketed in Japan. 1992 ■ ■ ■ The World Wide Web becomes available. MP3 music compression coding integrated into new MPEG-1 format. Digital cellular phone service introduced. MiniDisc launched. 1990 ■ FCC adopts ATSC HDTV standards. WRAL, Raleigh, N.C., receives first HDTV broadcast license; first commercial HDTV broadcast by WHD-TV in Washington, D.C. Set-top boxes plug into televisions to let viewers surf the Internet via remote control. The first DVD players sold in Japan. Competing DVD standards are introduced; a single DVD standard selected. Sony announces the first digital camcorders to be sold worldwide. Dolby Digital surround sound introduced. The flash memory technology standard introduced. Flat-screen plasma display TVs introduced. The first MiniDV digital video camcorders enter the marketplace in the U.S. 1994 ■ 1996 ■ ■ ■ 1997 2000 ■ 1995 Cable modems are first sold in stores. Hard disk-based digital personal video recorders (PVRs) are first introduced, capable of “smart” programming. Satellite and digital radio formats announced. DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD (SACD) players introduced. First MP3 tracks distributed and first portable MP3 players available. The high-definition VCR introduced. The first high-definition plasma display screen introduced. High-speed Wi-Fi 802.11a specification published. 1998 2001 ■ Page 21 1999 2003 ■ 4:12 PM 2009 CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides The all-digital high-definition television (HDTV) system is proposed. www.CE.org 21 CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides 9/23/09 4:13 PM Page 22 CEAPAC Contributors 2009 We recognize the following people for their generous contributions to CEAPAC in 2009. $5,000 cumulative annual contribution Tom Campbell, Tom Campbell Enterprises Karen Chupka, CEA Circuit City Political Action Committee Peter Fannon, Panasonic Corp. of North America Randy Fry, Fry's Electronics Levy Gerzberg, Zoran Corp. Stan Glasgow, Sony Electronics Inc. Loyd Ivey, Mitek Corp. Henry Juszkiewicz, Gibson Guitar Corp. Blake Krikorian, id8 Group Patrick Lavelle, Audiovox Corp. Noel Lee, Monster Cable Peter Lesser, X-10 (USA) Inc. David Lorsch, DC Genius Inc. Michael Mohr, Celluphone Jason Oxman, CEA Michael Petricone, CEA Sam Runco Grant Russell, Kleen Concepts Ed Sachs, Associate Marketing Partners Inc. John Shalam, Audiovox Corp. Gary Shapiro, CEA $2,000-$4,999 cumulative annual contribution Jay McLellan, Home Automation Inc. Robert Schwartz, Constantine Cannon LLP Gary Yacoubian, Monster Cable $1,000–$1,999 cumulative annual contribution Jim Bazet, Cobra Electronics Jim Burger, DowLohnes PLLC Steve Cannon, Constantine Cannon LLP Henry Chiarelli, Chiarelli and Associates 22 www.CE.org Bill Crutchfield, Crutchfield Corp. Eric Davidson, American Automation and Communications Inc. Bob Fields, InstallerNet Inc. Denise Gibson, Brightstar US John Godfrey, Samsung Information Systems America Inc. Craig Jerabeck, 5Linx Enterprises Inc. Glenda MacMullin, CEA Brian Markwalter, CEA Daniel Pidgeon, Starpower David Rodarte, NuVo Technologies Teresa Stamm, Mitek Corp. Steve Tiffen, Tiffen Company John Tunnell, CEA up to $999 cumulative annual contribution Bernie Appel, Appel Associates Bill Belt, CEA Jennifer Bemisderfer, CEA James Braun, Dual Electronics Corp. Michael Brown, CEA Eric Bodley, PPC Bruce Borenstein, SabreID Parker Brugge, CEA Steven Caldero, Ken Crane’s Home Entertainment Sage Chandler, CEA Dan Cole, CEA Mike Cook, MTI John Cutts, CEA Amy Dempster, CEA Kara Dickerson, CEA Tara Dunion, CEA Andrea DuBravac Shawn DuBravac, CEA Ethan Elser, CEA Chris Ely, CEA David Epstein, Sound Solutions Catherine Fowler Rick Goricki, Plantronics Inc Tira Gordon, CEA Colleen Gorman, CEA Allison Greene, CEA J. David Grossman Megan Hayes, CEA James Hedlund, CEA Ian Hendler, Leviton Meghan Henning, CEA Tim Herbert Cindy Hoag, CEA Steven Howcott, JVC Company of America Jeannette Howe, Specialty Electronics Nationwide Laura Hubbard, CEA Laura Hudson, CEA Doug Johnson, CEA Christian Jorgensen, 1st Foundry Deb Kassoff, CEA Stephen Kidera, CEA Richard Kowalski, CEA Laurie Kulikosky, CEA John Lindsey, CEA Susan Littleton, CEA Laurie Lutz, CEA Shazia McGeehan, CEA Molly McLearn, CEA Kinsey Miller, CEA Tom Moschello, CEA Jenni and Kerry Moyer, CEA Sean Murphy, CEA Christie Meyer, CEA Veronica O’Connell, CEA Tom O’Donoghue Allyson Pahmer, CEA Clyde Podraza, Dual Electronics Corp. Michael Pope, Audio Video Interiors Inc. Bill Rollins, CEA Paul Sabbah, Stamford International Inc. Ellen Savage, CEA Patricia Schoenberg, Spectra Merchandising International Inc. Paul Schomburg, Panasonic Corp. of North America Matthew Shaffer Sonya Shifflett, CEA Sylvia Solari, CEA Herman Sperling, Harman Consumer Group Cindy Stevens, CEA Ryan Strowger, CEA Katie Swearingen, CEA Sarah Szabo, CEA Angela Titone, CEA Siri Tyler, CEA Elly Valas, Valas Consulting Shell Walser, CEA Skip West, MAXSA Innovations LLC Noelle Williams, CEA Dave Wilson, CEA Gary Yellin, CEA As of September 23, 2009 CEA Consumer Electronics Association CE Hall of Fame Insides:CE Hall of Fame Insides 9/23/09 4:13 PM Page 23 CEA Events International CES New York Press Preview featuring CES Unveiled@NY November 10, 2009 New York, NY Future of Television East November 18-19, 2009 New York, NY 2010 International CES® January 7-10, 2010 Las Vegas, NV Consumer Electronics Executive Summit June, 2010 EHX Spring 2010 March 24-27, 2010 Orlando, FL 2010 SINOCES July 8-11, 2010 Quigdao, China Digital Patriots Dinner May, 2010 Washington, DC 2010 CEA Industry Forum October 17-20, 2010 San Francisco, CA CEA Washington Forum May, 2010 Washington, DC Digital Music Forum East February 23-24, 2010 New York, NY logo to come Hall of Fame 2009 Greener Gadgets Conference February 25, 2010 New York, NY 2009 CEA sponsors a variety of events to educate the industry and unite manufacturers, retailers and market movers. 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