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?

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.

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.

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?

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/serial_killers/weird/lecter/2.html

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