Co-founded by Ralph Matthews and Karl Hassel in Chicago in 1918, Zenith was a manufacturer of radio and television receivers and other consumer electronics, headquartered in Glenview, Illinois. The company was a small producer of amateur radio equipment with the name "Zenith" coming from ZN'th, a contraction of its founders' ham radio call sign, 9ZN. Joined in 1921 by Eugene F. McDonald, the Zenith Radio Company was formally incorporated in 1923. For many years Zenith used the slogan "the quality goes in before the name goes on," a phrase lifted from the Geo. P. Bent Piano Company, also of Chicago.
Today, Zenith Electronics, LLC is an American research and development company that develops digital rights management technologies. It is owned by the South Korean company LG Electronics, formerly known as GoldStar. Zenith may be best known for the first practical wireless television remote control, Space Command, from 1956. Then again, they were the first company to experiment with subscription television, known as Phonevision. When a preannounced broadcast was ready to begin, viewers would call an operator at Zenith who would send a signal with the telephone leads to unscramble the video.
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