John H. Frishette; Retired NBC Vice President
John H. Frishette, retired vice president of broadcast operations and technical services for NBC-TV, has died at a Burbank hospital. He was 63.
A longtime Burbank resident, Frishette died Wednesday of complications of a stroke, his son, Robert Frishette of Burbank said.
Born in Muskegon, Mich., Frishette received electrical engineering training in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. After his discharge, Frishette began working for NBC radio in Chicago in 1950. In 1955, he moved to Burbank to work for NBC-TV, then located in Hollywood.
Frishette designed the on-air master control operations for the NBC headquarters in Burbank and also spent two years in Moscow as NBC’s director of engineering for the 1980 Olympics, his son said. He was a member of the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers and retired in 1988.
Frishette is also survived by his wife of 46 years, Bette Frishette; son William Frishette of Hermosa Beach; daughters Janet Broneer of Santa Clarita and Linda Alumbaugh of Rosamond; brother Douglas Frishette of Norton Shores, Mich., and four grandchildren.
A funeral is scheduled at 11 a.m. today at First United Methodist Church of Burbank, 700 N. Glenoaks Blvd. Burial will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills.
Forest Lawn Mortuary, Hollywood Hills, is handling the arrangements.
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