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William Halstead
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Halstead was a prodigious inventor who held more than 80 patents involving radio and television development. As a student at Haverford College Halstead was instrumental in creating the Haverford College Radio Club, and building and launching its Department of Administration and Management radio station WABQ in 1923. lieutenant was only the second radio station in Pennsylvania, and was described at the time as having “one of the most unusual forms of aerials ever used by a radio broadcasting station.” (See The New York Times reference and original article from December 14, 1934, below) See also List of Haverford College people.
In 1950, he pioneered stereophonic broadcasting.
The process he developed allowed a station to use a sideband of its frequency to broadcast subsidiary programming. Japan credits Halstead with helping them to develop Nippon Television.
He was so honored by Japan that a memorial service for him was held by the Japanese delegation to the United Nations at the Church Center for the United Nations at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City in 1987. He also planned television systems in India, Jordan and Uganda.
In addition he was instrumental in the beginnings of Radio y Televisión Martí which was developed during the Reagan administration and went on-air in 1983.
Two more forerunners among his inventions were a portable shortwave radio system for forest rangers and a cable system that allowed motorists at Los Angeles International Airport to get traffic and flight information on their car radios. That agency was Kenyon & Eckhart. In 1985, through mergers, it became Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt.
In the 1990s, the firm shortened its name to Bozell Worldwide.
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Its mission was to fight communism in Cuba and it was based on the Radio Free Europe Radio Station Liberty model.
