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Biography"Zenith Electronics LLC is an American brand of consumer electronics owned by South Korean company LG Electronics; it was previously an American company, a manufacturer of radio and television receivers and other consumer electronics, and was headquartered in Glenview, Illinois, then in Lincolnshire, Illinois, U.S; co-founded by Ralph Matthews and Karl Hassel in Chicago, Illinois as Chicago Radio Labs in 1918 as a small producer of amateur radio equipment; name "Zenith" came from ZN'th, a contraction of its founders' ham radio call sign, 9ZN; joined in 1921 by Eugene F. McDonald; Zenith Radio Company was formally incorporated in 1923; by 1962, known as Zenith Radio Corporation; entered the computer market in 1979; name changed to Zenith Electronics Corporation in 1984 to reflect its interests in computers and CATV, and since it had left the radio business two years earlier"--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85066885.html
