Born 1908 Muskegon, Michigan; grew up Dayton, Ohio; high-responsibility high school job at Metropolitan Company, local department store; BA, Ohio Wesleyan university, 1930; marriage to Ruth Stephenson; PhD in Psychology, Ohio State University, 1934; Radio market research--invention of instrument to measure radio listening behavior; Research Department at CBS, 1935; promotion to President in 1946 by CEO William Paley; research work with psychologist Paul Lazarsfeld; early television inventions, programming, advertising; News vs. Entertainment; Edward R. Murrow; CBS Reports; Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences; RAND Corporation; "The Selling of the Pentagon" and issues of Freedom of Press; balance of power with William Paley; lobbying work to change the Federal Communications Act to allow televised presidential debates; 1960 presidential election; confidential government work and conflict of roles of government insider and broadcaster; relationship with Lyndon Baines Johnson and other Presidents; building of Black Rock; cable television and Viacom; AEA Investors group; Columbia Records; broadcast news; American Red Cross chairmanship; Harvard University trusteeship; effects of technology on modern media; memories of wife
Executives; Television--History; Radio--History; Stanton, Frank, 1908-2006; Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1996
Physical Description
771 pages
Note (Biographical)
Media Executive
Note
Interviewed by Mary Marshall Clark in New York City between March 5, 1991 and April 2, 1996
This interview is featured in Columbia University Libraries’ Notable New Yorkers website. Notable New Yorkers was a project of Columbia University Libraries Digital Program. The original website was developed by Columbia University Digital Knowledge V entures and published in 2006