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It says here that RCA was put together by AT&T and United Fruit. Are you sure United Fruit was involved?

Here it says that RCA 'aquired the famous trademark of the dog "Nipper" listening to "His Master's Voice.'

Is this correct? Surely this remained with EMI/HMV - a British company? However, it is possible that they formed an alliance with HMV, and were then permitted to use this trademark within the USA. Can someone please clarify this?

-- David Martland 05:55 15 Jun 2003 (UTC)

The British Company HMV and the USA company Victor were both decended from companies founded by the same Emile Berliner, and they had a relationship, releasing records recorded by each other on the other side of the pond. Victor was a shareholder in Gramophone & Typewriter and then HMV, though I don't know what percent. I think by agreement HMV and Victor split up the rights to use the artwork in different parts of the world. HMV had the rights to the dog & gramophone logo in most of Europe and the Commonwealth (although Canada seems to have been a special case, as Berliner had already established a seperate company there; see Berliner Gramophone). Victor had rights to the logo in the USA, Latin America, and Japan (and possibly a few other non-European countries). While there are still some details I'm not sure of, I hope this helps. -- Infrogmation 07:35 15 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Actually, I belive the Victor company of japan (AKA JVC or Nivico ) held the rights to japan. cmacd123 09:05 20041006

Yes, after JVC split from US RCA Victor. -- Infrogmation 21:04, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Ahem. In World War I, Italy fought AGAINST Germany. It was NOT allied with it. Figured someone should point this out. -Penta 02:04, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

1 Artist List
2 First Television
3 defunct?
4 List of RCA records artists
5 RCA Logos
6 RCA and RCA Victor infoboxes
7 Make RCA Records a separate listing again.
8 See Also section

[edit] Artist List

Any chance we can get a list of artists that are on RCA Records?

[edit] First Television

Didn't "Philo Farnsworth" demonstrate the worlds first TV system (not RCA)? -68.239.224.85

Define "television". RCA showed *something* in 1939, but the Germans had been broadasting in 1935 and John Logie Baird would have argued strenously that *he* was first. Define "first" - a wavery black diagonal line flickering in a darkened laboratory, or a scheduled commerically-supported broadcast with sound? "Firsts" are rarely definitive. Thank heaven Tesla never got interested in pictures by wire else the revert war would never end. --Wtshymanski 17:23, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

What Farnsworth demonstrated would qualify as "television." In 1929, he transmitted an image of his wife over eletronic television. Recognizable image, recorded with a camera, converted to radio waves, received, decoded, and displayed by another, independent piece of hardware = television. However, Farnsworth's system was not the first television. It was the first electronic television. Previous television systems were mechanical, relying on a light bulb and rotating disc. ClarusWorks 17:47, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

The article doesn't claim RCA's 1939 television system was the "first" television. Details about Farnsworth don't belong in the RCA article if he wasn't working for them. I put in a link to History of television where people interested in that subject can go for detail. -- Infrogmation 18:06, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] defunct?

How can RCA be defunct? I still see televisions and other products being manufactured with that brand name attached. I should remove the defunct businesses category from this article. --SuperDude 08:45, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

RCA TVs are made by Thomson SA so RCA exists only as a brand name used by Thomson for consumer electronics and by Sony BMG Music Entertainment for recorded music. Steelbeard1 03:52, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of RCA records artists

Removed this as it was a fairly short list of artists; some of them of major note, some not so major. If this was to be a complete list, it would bloat out the article far more than its benefit would justify, and if it isn't, what's the point of a list of *some* RCA artists?

What qualifies as an RCA records artist? One signed to RCA? Which RCA? One distributed by RCA? What if they were only distributed by RCA in some countries at some stage (e.g. ABBA)?

Fourohfour 12:21, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RCA Logos

The block letters RCA logo introduced in 1968 is used by Thomson. The original lighting bolt RCA logo is used by Sony BMG. Steelbeard1 15:52, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

The circular lightning bolt logo is the "original" logo that was replaced by the newer 1968 logo as indicated above...the reverse of what is claimed in the page.

[edit] RCA and RCA Victor infoboxes

I would love to see infoboxes for the RCA Records, RCA Victor and RCA Red Seal labels, but the present layout consolidating all of RCA into one article makes it impractical today. Can the article be split so the recorded music operations can have infoboxes? Steelbeard1 11:51, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I went ahead and placed the RCA Records infobox in the RCA article. I hope this will hasten the splitting up of the RCA article to make RCA Records a separate article. Steelbeard1 05:30, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Make RCA Records a separate listing again.

With infoboxes being added to active record labels, we desperately need to make RCA Records a separate article instead of redirecting it to RCA. How can it be "unredirected"?

Agreed. We need to split RCA Records from the main RCA article. Steelbeard1 10:44, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I added a split box in the main article to try and fast forward the spinning off of RCA Records into a separate article. Steelbeard1 03:17, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

The split is complete. RCA Records is now a separate article. Steelbeard1 19:39, 6 July 2006 (UTC)