MultiDyne Founder Jachetta Dies
Vincent Jachetta, founder of video/optics company MultiDyne, dies from complications from Lyme disease.
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/4/2008 12:59:00 PM
Vincent Jachetta, 70, founder of video/optics company MultiDyne, died Sept. 2 of complications from Lyme disease.
Jachetta launched MultiDyne in 1977 with the development of a portable test-signal generator, eventually getting patents for hand-held-video and audio-test-signal generators and developing a video-distribution amplifier that "helped to get CNN on the air," according to MultiDyne.
The company now manufactures a range of broadcast and cable equipment.
Before starting his own company, Jachetta held posts at ABC, CBS and NBC, spending most of his career with NBC in New York helping to produce specials, Major League Baseball games, National Football League games, presidential elections, conventions and The Miss America Pageant. He also helped to produce early professional-wrestling broadcasts.
Jachetta is survived by his wife, Joan, and two sons, Jim and Frank, both of whom are executives with MultiDyne.
The family has asked that, in lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (www.ilads.org). An earlier version of this story had featured the incorrect association.
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Donations to ILADS (www.ilads.org), not ALDF. This is what the family requests on the MultiDyne website (www.multidyne.com).
Susan Fairbank-Pitzer - 9/6/2008 7:16:00 PM EDT -
It appears that someone at B & C misread the announcement of Mr.
Jachetta's death from MultiDyne (his own company). Their announcement
specifically says that the family requests donations be made to ILADS and
they do not mention ALDF at all. Look up Multidyne(dot)com and go to the
end of his obituary.
Ardith Bondi - 9/6/2008 11:55:00 AM EDT -
The AMERICAN LYME DISEASE FOUNDATION, the one hurting us was despicable enough to actually plagiarize the name of one of the original patient organizations called the LYME DISEASE FOUNDATION. The ALDF does not have any patients or patient advocates and believe us sufferers are just malingerers who should just go away-or die silently.
Merlyn R. Mencke - 9/5/2008 12:24:00 PM EDT -
They are committing scientific fraud! At the Second
National Conference on Serologic Diagnosis of Lyme
Disease, a/k/a The Dearborn Conference, in 1994 (still going on today) is how it began.
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Several months prior to that conference; several doctors who hold patents on LD, sit on the IDSA/ALDF boards and are also members of the CDC met with the FDA and began to spin the testing on Lyme. All truely
conflicts of interest.
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Please visit www.lymecryme(dot)com
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You and your family deserve to know the truth, "Why we
are all so sick and being misdiagnosed."
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We are so sorry for the families loss.
Dottie L Heffron - 9/5/2008 7:30:00 AM EDT -
For three years now, In Short Order radio show has been bringing the Lyme disease experts to the public. Not one of the experts in those three years has ever praised the ALDF for their efforts -- and there is a perfectly good reason for that -- their efforts are helping few. My sympathy goes out to this family for their loss. I hope they will reconsider where donations should go. There is a little boy in Texas who may be taken from his mother because she is seeking Lyme disease treatment for him (letssavemarc.org)-- there is a Lyme disease research project that could use funding (datamedgroup.com)-- and a Congressional briefing scheduled that could use a few donations (natcaplyme.org).
Sue Vogan - 9/5/2008 2:06:00 AM EDT
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