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The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American recording company and phonograph manufacturer, incorporated in 1901. Victor was an independent enterprise until 1929 when it was purchased by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and became the RCA Victor Division of the Radio Corporation of America until late 1968, when it was renamed RCA Records.
Under federal pressure, General Electric, AT&T, and Westinghouse sold their interest in RCA in 1932. The company, renamed RCA Corporation, became independent and was led by David Sarnoff. RCA, still the parent company of RCA-Victor, introduced a new invention — the television — at the 1939 World's Fair.
RCA Victor issued boxed sets of four to six 45s, each set providing about the same amount of music as one LP (an extreme example of these 45 rpm boxed sets was the complete 1951 recording of the opera Carmen, featuring Risë Stevens and Jan Peerce, conducted by Fritz Reiner, which consisted of sixteen 45 rpm discs). In the case of operas ...
The How and Why of RCA Victor's New Record and Player By D. D. Cole Chief Engineer RCA Victor Home Instrument Department In the fifty years since the birth of the record and phonograph industry, many types of records and phonographs --of various - sizes, revolving speeds, and design have beet, dcvc.loped. But for the first
From 1937 to February, 1946, Victor singles continued on a re-designed label without the fancy scroll work. Victor began advertising themselves as RCA Victor in late June, 1945, In February, 1946, the company began to add RCA to the labels, officially dubbing them “RA Victor” records.
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Japanese-American Roots. JVC was founded in 1927, as the wholly owned subsidiary of the Victor Talking Machine Company of the United States, to manufacture and market phonographs in Japan. Victor, however, was purchased in 1929 by the Radio Corporation of America and renamed RCA Victor. As part of an effort to enlist the marketing and sales ...
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In 1929, RCA purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the world's largest manufacturer of phonographs (including the famous "Victrola") and phonograph records (in British English, "gramophone records"). The company then became RCA-Victor. With Victor, RCA acquired New World rights to the famous Nipper trademark.
