ikeBlonder bio

Biography August 2001

b. NYC, June 24, 1916.

1938, U. Conn, B.S. Physics, High Honors.
1940, U. Cornell, M.S. Physics.
1941-6, U. S. Signal Corps, Radar Officer.
1946-47, Panoramic Radio Corp, N.Y.C., Engineer.
1947-48, City College, N.Y.C., Engineering Physics Instructor.
1948-50, Engineer, Teleking Corp, TV Manufacturer, N.Y.C.
1950-89, Chairman of the Board, Blonder Tongue Labs Inc., N. J. manufacturer of TV cameras, monitors, antennas , STV, CATV, MATV amplifiers, modulators. Now, Chairman Emeritus.
1964-70, Director, WNJU-TV Channel 47, Newark, NYC.
1964-70, President, Com-Cable TV Inc. Multiple CATV Operator (MSO).
1972-76, President, WBTB-TV Channel 68, Newark-NYC, channel 60, NYC.
1972-89, Director, United Jersey Bank/Mid-State.
1979-82, Stockholder, WQTV, Channel 54, Baltimore, Md.
1988----, President, Blonder Broadcasting Corp., Experimental TV channels WEXP-TV 27,28, Hoboken, N.J.
1988----, Stevens Institute of Technology, special assistant to the President on HDTV.

39 Patents. Includes: First STV broadcast system. Outdoors addressable scrambled cable pay TV system. Asymmetrical Yagi antennas. Method of and system for Stereoscopic Television.

Life member, IEEE. Member SMPTE. Member SCTE. Member NCTA engineering committee. Member/Observer - EIA broadband communications study, EIA TV tuner comittee, EIA land-mobile committee, EIA satellite committee, EIA engineering policy committee,EIA engineering education committee, FCC TV stereo sound committee (BTSC), SMPTE working group on Stereoscopic TV. CAB commitee, 1962-66, chaired by Commissioner Bob Lee to encourage UHF broadcasting. FCC Cable Technical Advisory Committee (CTAC) chaired by Commisssioner Jim Quello to recommend technical standards for CATV. Expert Viewer, ATTC HDTV test center, Alexandria, Va., October 7-10, 1991.
1989-1997 USNC Technical Advisor (TA) to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on committees 100D cable, 100C TV. Low Power TV Association Distinguished Service Award, 1983.
Lewis Wolfson Memorial Award for services to the STV industry, 1980.