Jerry LeBow, a former station group owner who was also known in the U.S. radio industry for co-founding a manufacturer of widely used Emergency Alert System equipment, has died.
He was 81. His death was reported by Harold Price, president of Sage Alerting Systems, the EAS manufacturer.
Gerald M. LeBow held a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rhode Island, was a longtime member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers and held amateur radio license K2SMC since 1955.
He co-founded Sage Broadcast Corp. in 1985, according to a bio on the Sage Alerting website, and was its executive vice president. The company at one time owned 24 radio stations in the Northeast and Midwest, and its stock was traded on NASDAQ.
In 1991 LeBow co-founded and was VP of Sage Alerting Systems Inc., which developed and installed warning systems for the petrochemical industry and for governments. At Sage Alerting he advocated for the use of RBDS for emergency alerting.
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