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RCA logo by Lippincott & Margulies, used from 1968 to 1987. Still in use by the RCA brand and RCA Records.…
RCA’s former headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 1933–1987…
TypeSubsidiary
Traded asNYSE: RCA
IndustryMedia
Electronics
PredecessorMarconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America
FoundedNovember 20, 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America
FounderOwen D. Young
Defunct1987
FateAcquired by GE in 1986, various divisions sold or liquidated, and trademark rights sold to Thomson SA in 1988.
SuccessorsGeneral Electric
RCA (owned by Talisman Brands)
RCA Records (owned by Sony Music Entertainment)
NBC (owned by Comcast)
HeadquartersNew York City, New York, US1
Key peopleOwen D. Young (first board chairman)
David Sarnoff (first general manager and third president)
ProductsRadios
Vacuum tubes
Phonograph records
Electric phonograph
Audio accessories
RCA Photophone
Televisions
CED Videodisc
TV station equipment:
Studio cameras
Videotape machines
Film chains
TV transmitters
TV broadcast antennas
Satellites
Video game consoles
ParentGE (1919–1932, 1986–1987)
Technicolor SA2 (trademark rights only, 1987–2022)
Talisman Brands d.b.a Established Inc. (trademark, since 2022)
DivisionsRCA Records
National Broadcasting Company, Inc.
RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
RCA Services

RCA Corporation

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Footnotes

  1. “RCA (Radio Corporation of America)”. IEEE Global History Network. IEEE. Retrieved June 1, 2017. ↩

  2. Until 2010 known as Thomson SA ↩