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Jack Wayman, pioneer of CEA, dies at 92

Wayman Jack Wayman, father of the Consumer Electronics Association, died Aug. 30 at 92, the group announced. Wayman also founded the International Consumer Electronics Show, now the world's largest technology convention. Though Wayman never led CEA, the group grew from a Wayman-run division of the Electronics Industry Association, the Consumer Electronics Group, which decades ago represented U.S. radio, phonograph and television manufacturers. The EIA is now defunct, having split into a number of groups including the $81 million-revenue CEA and the $10 million-revenue Telecommunications Industry Association. "The consumer electronics industry has lost a legend and,… Read More