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How is the newly created RCA Records article? Of course, feel free to add to it. Steelbeard1 16:25, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Where did RCA Camden fit in?

I belive it was a side lable for low cost stuff, the only example I have seen was a "roger Miller" album. (Presumably named for the NJ city?)

Yes it was. It was active from the 1950s through the 1970s. Yes, it was named after Victor's original home base of Camden, NJ. Steelbeard1 17:26, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
  • The RCA Camden Label was revived in the mid 1980s, when the Special Music company reissued a series of RCA Camden Albums on Cassette and CD. The Series was called "RCA Camden Classics" and lasted into the late 1990s.Garr1984 20:50, 12 April 2007 (UTC)ยง

[edit] What is material re RCA consumer market technology doing here?

Does this not belong in the RCA article??? This article should only concern records. Dogru144 22:42, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Japan Victor Company

  • How about the division that RCA established in Japan before World War II - the Japan Victor Company, which remained seperate after the war, and currently trades under the JVC label. They originally distributed RCA products in the Asian market, and was taken over by the Japanese government at the start of the war. -- SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) 23:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
That would be Victor Entertainment. Steelbeard1 02:42, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
No, that would be JVC
70.69.50.77 05:10, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
Remember that this article is about the record company, NOT the electronics company. It IS Victor Entertainment as far as THIS article is concerned. Its parent JVC was split from RCA, the electronics company which at the time both had record company subsidiaries. But RCA and RCA Records were split in 1986 when new RCA owner General Electric sold its interest in the record company. Steelbeard1 12:38, 12 May 2007 (UTC)


Misleading Statement:

RCA Records was founded in 1901 as the Victor Talking Machine Company This is misleading as The Victor Talking Machine Company and RCA were competitors throughout the twenties. RCA bought the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1929 and formed Victor RCA. The earlier statement would be the equivalent of saying Sony was founded in 1835 as Bertelsmann because the two merged in 2004. The RCA parent company didn't from untill 1919, so to say RCA records formed in 1901 is not entirely true, I think 1929 would be a more appropriate date since that is when RCA moved into record production.

This article is about the record company, NOT the electronics company founded in 1919. RCA did not make phonograph records until it bought the Victor Talking Machine Company. Steelbeard1 20:44, 15 November 2006 (UTC)