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Frank Stanton

American radio and television executive
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Frank Nicholas Stanton
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March 20, 1908, Muskegon, Mich., U.S.
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Dec. 24, 2006, Boston, Mass. (aged 98)
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Frank Stanton (born March 20, 1908, Muskegon, Mich., U.S.—died Dec. 24, 2006, Boston, Mass.) was an innovative American radio and television executive, who was president of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) from 1946 to 1971. Stanton grew up in Dayton, Ohio, and attended Ohio Wesleyan University (B.A., 1930) and Ohio State University (M.A., 1932; Ph.D., 1935). His doctoral dissertation on measuring the reactions of broadcast audiences to radio programming led to a summer job with the network. His subsequent rise in the broadcasting hierarchy was rapid, and by age 38 he was president of CBS. With chairman William S. Paley, ...(100 of 349 words)

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