NBC engineer in Chicago

[julianburke]

For all of you chicago area folks: Does anyone know of an NBC engineer that may have recently died? He was in the Chicago area. Perhaps one that may have gone to a nursing home?

[Rinehart]

Did he work for NBC in Chicago, or was he merely living in Chicago when he died? Also, could you tell me when he worked for NBC? There are a couple of web sites devoted to television in Chicago--Rich Samuels has created one--and if he goes back far enough, I've got one or two books that might have the answer.

[ChrisW6ATV]

This sounds familiar. It seems that there was a discussion or mention of an estate sale, perhaps, of the home of a TV executive or engineer recently. It may have been in Schiller Park or Norridge, Illinois, and I may have commented that I lived only a few blocks away. I may be thinking of a Zenith man rather than NBC however. A search of my past posts may bring it up.

[julianburke]

I found out the name of the engineer in Chicago. For all of you around there, did anyone know William A Coyne? Anyone know any details of where he worked and when he passed away?

[WISCOJIM]

Hope it wasn't this William Coyne:

"Lecter was inspired by a murderer named William Coyne, who had escaped from prison in 1934 and gone on a rampage in Cleveland that included acts of murder and cannibalism."



http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/s.../lecter/2.html

[ohohyodafarted]

I wonder if he was somehow associated with Coyne School of Electronics. I believe there were adds for the school in Popular Electronics back in the 60's teaching TV repair etc Here is a link to the Wikipedia page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyne_College