Broadcasting Career
Increasingly wealthy from a series of stock investments, Lamb began buying newspapers and television and radio stations in the 1940s. Picture Waves, Inc., a Lamb-owned affiliate, was awarded the license for WTVN-TV (now WSYX) in Columbus, Ohio and the station began broadcasting in 1949.. His ownership of WICU, a television station in Erie, Pennsylvania, led to a bitter legal battle with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). When the station's license came up for renewal in 1954, the FCC tried to get Lamb to surrender his broadcasting license on the grounds that he associated with communists. Lamb fought for the right to hold the license, and won his case in 1957.
Lamb also owned more than 55 manufacturing and financial concerns (including Nevada National Bancorporation, now Security Pacific Bank). One of his largest businesses was the Seiberling Rubber Co. Lamb fought a losing proxy fight for control over the company in 1956, but seized control after another shareholder battle in 1962. At the time of his death, Lamb was chairman of his family-owned company, Great Lakes Communications Inc.
In his later years, Lamb was a trustee of the United Nations Association chapter in the United States, and participated in peace and civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s. He was also a trustee of the Fund for the Republic, a civil rights organization which was absorbed by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in 1979. He was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto.
Lamb died in 1987 at his home in Maumee, Ohio, at the age of 84. His wife and children survived him.
His estate endowed the Edward Lamb Foundation.
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