In anticipation of PlayStation's launch Sony Interactive Studios America had made the decision to focus primarily on console titles under the banner 989 Studios while spinning off its sole computer title, EverQuest, which was ready to launch, to a new computer game division named Redeye ( renamed Verant Interactive ).

Also, in 2007, Paramount sold another one of its " heritage " units, Famous Music, to Sony / ATV Music Publishing ( best known for publishing many songs by The Beatles, and for being co-owned by Michael Jackson ), ending a nearly-eight-decade run as a division of Paramount, being the studio's music publishing arm since the period when the entire company went by the name " Famous Players.

* Windham Hill Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

Simultaneous with Sony Pictures's release of the film, its soundtrack was released by Sony subsidiary Columbia Records, while the corporation's digital effects division Sony ImageWorks issued a CD-ROM videogame version for DOS, Mac and Windows 3. x.

Sony realised early on the potential for the reaching their target demographic through Internet marketing, and its new-technology division promoted the film with an online scavenger hunt offering $ 20, 000 in prizes.

* Triumph Films, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment

The entire operation was reorganized and renamed Sony Pictures Entertainment ( SPE ) on August 7, 1991, and at the same time, TriStar ( which had officially lost its hyphen ) relaunched its television division in October.

Currently, Legacy Recordings, Sony Music's catalog division, reissues classic albums for RCA.

Because Sony Music was the successor to the old CBS record division, this merger meant that RCA Records, once owned by parent RCA, was now under the same umbrella as the label once owned by RCA's rival, the Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS ), Columbia Records.

* RCA Records ( UK ): A division of Sony Music UK, since 2006, which acts as an import label of American and multinational Sony Music artists, and also signs UK artists.

* RCA Records ( France ): A division of Sony Music France.

* RCA Records ( Italy ): A division of Sony Music Italy.

* RCA Records ( Australia ): A division of Sony Music Australia.

For many years, Gaumont's home video division was a joint venture with Sony Pictures Entertainment.

On March 27, 2001, a remastered edition for compact disc was reissued by Legacy Records, Epic and its parent label Columbia Records now a division of Sony Music Entertainment.

On March 27, 2001, a remastered edition for compact disc was reissued by Legacy Records, Epic and its parent label Columbia Records now a division of Sony Music Entertainment.

The music and television industries recently witnessed cases of media consolidation, with Sony Music Entertainment's parent company merging their music division with Bertelsmann AG's BMG to form Sony BMG and TimeWarner's The WB and CBS Corp .' s UPN merging to form The CW.

Bertelsmann Music Group, ( BMG ), was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008.

As of October 1, 2002, Aiwa ceased to be a separate company and became a wholly owned division of Sony.

In another transition between labels, the European release of Northern Light was handled by Sony Music's Ka2 division rather than Dependent or Subspace.

A majority of the DeMille motion picture library now resides with EMKA, Ltd. through the television division of NBC Universal, due to Paramount Pictures ' losing the rights to the DeMille films in 1958 to EMKA, so technically it is Universal Pictures that now oversees a vast part of DeMille's motion picture career as well as its related archival material.

Following his Ed Sullivan appearance, Jones signed a contract with Ward Sylvester of Screen Gems ( then the television division of Columbia Pictures ).

In 1932 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in the comedy division for producing The Loud Mouth ( with Matt McHugh, in the sports-heckler role later taken in Columbia Pictures remakes by Charley Chase and Shemp Howard ), and he won in the novelty division for his film Wrestling Swordfish.

Other successful animated musicals included Aladdin, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Pocahontas from Disney proper, The Nightmare Before Christmas from Disney division Touchstone Pictures, The Prince of Egypt from DreamWorks, Anastasia from Fox and Don Bluth, and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut from Paramount.

* Paramount has also acquired ( through Trifecta Entertainment & Media ) the US TV and digital rights to most of the Carolco Pictures catalog, under license from StudioCanal, as a result of acquiring Spelling Entertainment Group, whose Worldvision Enterprises division had been distributing the Carolco library.

Square Pictures, located in Honolulu, Hawaii, was a computer-animated film division of Square.

Furthermore, Jack Warner, who had little regard for his company's short film product, reputedly was so ignorant of his animation division that he was mistakenly convinced that the unit produced cartoons of Mickey Mouse, rival company Walt Disney Pictures ' flagship character.

Chang was released by Famous Players-Lasky, a division of Paramount Pictures.

Iwerks then did contract work for Screen Gems ( then Columbia Pictures ' cartoon division ) before returning to work for Disney in 1940.

By the early 1970s, ABC had formed its first theatrical division, ABC Pictures, later renamed ABC Motion Pictures.

In 1983, via its revived theatrical division, ABC Motion Pictures, Silkwood was released in theaters, and The Day After ( again produced in-house by its by-then retitled television unit, ABC Circle Films ) was viewed on TV by 100 million people, prompting discussion of nuclear activities taking place at the time.

But the network did acquire Orion Pictures ' television division in the wake of the studio's bankruptcy ( after a brief attempt at acquiring the studio itself ), later merging it with its in-house division ABC Circle Films to create ABC Productions.

The short was released in early 1953 by The Vitaphone Corporation, the short subject division of Warner Bros. Pictures, as part of the Merrie Melodies series.

He moved to the animation division of Paramount Pictures in 1967 and started his own studio, Bakshi Productions, in 1968.

While leaving the network offices, he learned that Paramount Pictures had recently fired Shamus Culhane, the head of its animation division.

For its initial summer 1957 run, the show was hosted by Win Barron, best known for his voice-over narration of newsreels produced by the Canadian division of Paramount Pictures.

The channel occasionally airs feature films produced by the network's Nickelodeon Movies film production division ( whose films are distributed by sister company Paramount Pictures ); however, despite the fact that the film division bears the Nickelodeon name, the Nickelodeon cable channel does not have access to most Nickelodeon Movies-produced films released through Paramount.

In 1985, Lear sold all his film and television production holdings to Columbia Pictures ( then owned by the Coca-Cola Company ) which acquired Embassy's film and television division ( which included Embassy's in-house television productions and the television rights to the Embassy theatrical library ) for $ 485 million in shares of The Coca-Cola Company.

The Embassy TV division became ELP Communications in 1988, but shows originally produced by Embassy were now under the Columbia Pictures Television banner from 1988 – 1994 and the Columbia TriStar Television banner from 1994-1998.

* Seagate Technology and Western Digital Corporation in the hard disk drive market ( after the acquisition of Samsung's hard drive division by the former and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies by the latter )

Grey also launched a Digital Entertainment division to take advantage of emerging digital distribution technologies.

* Digital AMPS ( IS-54 and IS-136 ), a 2G mobile-phone standard that uses Time division multiple access

First-party developers may either use the name of the company itself ( like Nintendo ), have a specific division name ( like Sony's Polyphony Digital ), or have formerly been an independent studio before being acquired by the console manufacturer, such as Rare or Naughty Dog.

* Matrox Digital Video Solutions division

It is the successor to the Intel StrongARM line of microprocessors and microcontrollers, which Intel acquired from DEC's Digital Semiconductor division as the side effect of a lawsuit between the two companies.

The XScale effort at Intel was initiated by the purchase of the StrongARM division from Digital Equipment Corporation in 1998.

* 1997 Sale of the company's film recorder division to German CCG Digital Image Technology.

Starting with two Digital Tandem Switch ( DTS ) voice-switching systems designed specifically for them by the Collins Radio Company of Cedar Rapids, Iowa ( later a division of Rockwell International ), MCI began offering competitive circuit-switched direct-dial services using a combination of their own microwave circuits and leased circuits from AT & T made available to them from the landmark Carterfone decision.

The WebTV division began developing most of Microsoft's television-based products, including the first satellite Digital Video Recorders ( the DishPlayer for EchoStar's Dish Network and UltimateTV for DirecTV ), Microsoft's cable TV products, the Xbox 360 hardware, and Microsoft's Mediaroom IPTV platform.

A digital division, Weta Digital, was formed in 1993.

Skywalker Sound is the sound effects, sound editing, sound design, sound mixing and music recording division of George Lucas ' Lucas Digital motion picture group.

It also reorganized its business organization to strengthen business synergies, by merging its Digital Air Solutions Team and Samsung Electronics Gwangju ( consumer electronics and air conditioners, merged in 2010 ) under the consumer electronics business division.

* Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd .: Japan division, established on 2006-03-31.

* Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc .: North American division, established on 2003-10-13.

* Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH: European division, established on 2003-04-01.

* Konami Digital Entertainment Limited: Hong Kong division.

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*** Digital Equipment Corporation's storage division acquired by Quantum in 1994

A year before, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound was installed in several theaters since the parent company used it as a marketing ploy to promote Sony's cinema sound division, which shut down in 2002.

ITV2 is a 24 hour, free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands owned by ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc.

Digital Domain's Commercials division provides digital imagery and animation for television commercials, working with top commercial directors.

Thereafter, low attendances ( the town is close to several large Championship and Premier League sides ) and lack of revenue following the ITV Digital collapse meant the club struggled to make a mark in the Football League, and after five seasons they were relegated back to the Conference National division.

The company was originally founded in 1981 as the mobile phone division of Japan Telecom under the name Digital Phone ( デジタルホン ).