Frank Stanton (rugby League)
Frank Stanton may refer to: * Frank Stanton (executive) (1908–2006), president of CBS, 1946–1973 * Frank Stanton (entrepreneur) (1921–1999), entrepreneur and real-estate investor who was a pioneer in audio and video cassette systems * Frank Stanton (rugby league) (born 1940), Australian rugby league player and coach * Frank Lebby Stanton Frank Lebby Stanton (February 22, 1857 – January 7, 1927), frequently credited as Frank L. Stanton, Frank Stanton or F. L. Stanton, was an American lyricist. He was also the initial columnist for the ''Atlanta Constitution'' and became the ...

Frank Stanton (executive)
Frank Nicholas Stanton (March 20, 1908 – December 24, 2006) was an American broadcasting executive who served as the president of CBS between 1946 and 1971 and then as vice chairman until 1973. He also served as the chairman of the Rand Corporation from 1961 until 1967. Early life Stanton was born March 20, 1908, in Muskegon, Michigan, to Helen Josephine Schmidt and Frank Cooper Stanton. He attended Stivers School for the Arts (then called Stivers High School) in Dayton, Ohio. He then attended Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, receiving a B.A. in 1930. He married his childhood sweetheart, Ruth Stephenson, in 1931. He taught for one year in the manual arts department of a high school in Dayton, then attended Ohio State University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1935. He also held a diploma from the American Board of Professional Psychology. His doctoral thesis was entitled ''A Critique of Present Methods and a New Plan for Studying Radio Listening Behavior''; fo ...
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Frank Stanton (entrepreneur)
Frank Stanton (May 9, 1921 - May 5, 1999) was an entrepreneur and investor, and was responsible for two pioneering (though ultimately unsuccessful) consumer audio and video systems. Biography His companies traded surplus goods around the world after World War II, and later imported German cars into the United States. In the 1960s, he developed the PlayTape audio cartridge, an early cassette system and, in the 1970s, the Cartrivision VCR system. In later years, he was involved in the real estate business, notably the Crowne Plaza Times Square Manhattan and One Worldwide Plaza in New York. He died in 1999 from complications of Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and as the disease worsens, non-motor symptoms becom .... References 1999 deaths Businesspeople from New York (state) American real es ...
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Frank Stanton (rugby League)
Frank Stanton may refer to: * Frank Stanton (executive) (1908–2006), president of CBS, 1946–1973 * Frank Stanton (entrepreneur) (1921–1999), entrepreneur and real-estate investor who was a pioneer in audio and video cassette systems * Frank Stanton (rugby league) (born 1940), Australian rugby league player and coach * Frank Lebby Stanton Frank Lebby Stanton (February 22, 1857 – January 7, 1927), frequently credited as Frank L. Stanton, Frank Stanton or F. L. Stanton, was an American lyricist. He was also the initial columnist for the ''Atlanta Constitution'' and became the ...