Ling spent his early years as president working to resolve MCA's financial problems, raising funds throughout the nation while restructuring the party's assets.

After Diamond had signed a deal with MCA Records, whose label at the time was Uni ( after MCA's parent company, Universal Pictures ), he moved to Los Angeles in 1970.

The exception was Ain't God Good which Clower recorded with MCA's blessing at a worship service.

Hamilton left in 1994 to accept the program director job at KNRK in Portland, Oregon, and Steve Masters departed soon after to take a Promotion job at MCA's new alternative label, WAY COOL.

Moffet also implanted a software logic bomb in Airwolf's computers ; when a certain length of time went by without him entering a special code, the computer took over control of the helicopter and sent it on a spree of destruction before Hawke and Santini could erase the software ( season 2's " Moffett's Ghost "-- the name was incorrectly spelled by MCA's Universal Title department ).

At this time, touring keyboard player Jeff Pedersen was made an official member of the group, and in 1995 The Why Store signed to MCA's subsidiary Way Cool Music for their first major – label effort, a self – titled LP, which was released in 1996.

Today Universal Music Enterprises manages MCA's rock, pop, and urban back catalogues ( including those from ABC Records and Famous Music Group ) in conjunction with Geffen-UME and Geffen have re-released various albums from MCA in the years since, as well as several compilations.

As part of the deal, MCA leased the studios back to Universal for $ 2 million a year, plus unlimited access to MCA's clients such as Stewart, Rock Hudson, Doris Day and Alfred Hitchcock to make films for Universal.

In order to acquire Universal, Wasserman was forced to dissolve MCA's talent agency — which represented most of the industry's biggest names — by Robert F. Kennedy's Department of Justice, as owning both the movie studio and a talent agency would violate antitrust laws.

MCA's country division, MCA Nashville Records, is a still active imprint of Universal Music Group Nashville.

The label was distributed by Warner Bros. Records since its inception, but in 1990, the label was sold to MCA and today is part of the Interscope-Geffen-A & M division of MCA's successor, Universal Music Group, formed as the result of the 1999 merger between the MCA and PolyGram families of labels.

All titles were distributed in Canada on MCA's behalf, but the film distribution outlet ceased operations in 1997 and the home video outlet a year later after MCA sold Universal Studios.

MCA TV ( also known as MCA Television Enterprises ), was an American television production / distribution company that was founded in 1951, several years before parent MCA's purchase of the US branch of Decca Records ( in 1959 ) and Universal Pictures ( in 1962 ).

In a quest to cut costs, DreamWorks SKG sold the label to Universal Music Group ( MCA's successor company ) in October 2003.

One of several labels that comprise Universal Motown Republic Group, the newly named Republic Records was formed in 1995 as a sub-label of MCA's Geffen Records.

In 1989, MCA decided to sell LJN after years of losses since 1987 when fallout surrounding toy guns made by LJN's Entertech division plunged MCA's profits 79. 5 % in the second quarter of that year.

Following MCA's takeover of PolyGram, it purchased the remaining interest of Def Jam Recordings from Russell Simmons for a reported $ 100 million.

Because MCA's original agreement with Paramount Pictures on the USA Network prohibited either partner from operating cable networks outside the joint venture, Viacom had been in breach of contract ever since they bought Paramount in 1994, thanks to MTV Networks.

However, according to longtime SST employee Joe Carducci the " Anti-Parent " statement was not the real reason for MCA's refusing to distribute Damaged ; Carducci reported that Unicorn Records was so poorly managed and so deeply in debt that MCA stood to lose money by distributing the album, regardless of its content.

In 1967, the MCA Records label was established outside North America to issue releases by MCA's labels.

MCA's classical music catalog is managed by Deutsche Grammophon.

Unlike most of MCA's previous acquisitions, the GRP ( which began managing MCA's jazz holdings ) and Geffen ( which became a second mainstream subsidiary ) labels kept their identities and MCA created a new holding company in 1989 called MCA Music Entertainment Group, headed by Al Teller, former President of United Artists Records, and Co-Chairman of Turf Classics, a concert production company, run by Producer Richard Flanzer ; among several other music industry positions Teller held.

MCA's jazz catalogue is managed by Verve Records ( through either the GRP or Impulse!

MCA's musical theatre catalogue is managed by Decca Records on its Decca Broadway imprint.

The NOC which he led until Parliament reconvened consisted of 7 Malays, one Chinese and one Indian ; likewise, the only major post in his Cabinet held by a non-Malay was that of the MCA's Tan Siew Sin, who was Finance Minister.

This was the first single Steely Dan released on MCA Records ( which had released the soundtrack ), predating MCA's acquisition of ABC Records by one year.

During a tournament with the MCA's junior team in France, he was noticed by scouts for FC Nantes and signed to the academy team there.

Wasserman helped create MCA's radio show Kay Kyser and His Kollege of Musical Knowledge, which debuted on NBC Radio that same year.

Following MCA's assimilation of the ABC family of labels, the album was reissued as MCA 1599 ( some vinyl copies using previously-pressed LPs with an ABC-Dunhill label ), then as budget-label MCA 37049.

In 1950 Revue Productions, once a live concert subsidiary that produced " Stage Door Canteen " live events for the USO during World War II, was re-launched as MCA's television production subsidiary.

In 1969, the Danelectro plant was closed, due to MCA's attempt to market Danelectros to small guitar shops rather than large department stores.

In addition, dbx Type-II noise reduction was used in the Model-II and Model-III variants of MCA's Sensurround Special Effects System on the optical audio track and was a cornerstone of the entire system.

In 1994, GRP was in charge of MCA's jazz operations.

Revue was re-launched as MCA's television production subsidiary in 1950.

After the acquisition, the label was temporarily rebranded " MCA-GRP Records ," and handled all of MCA's own jazz operations ; reissuing numerous classic jazz titles from MCA's Impulse, Chess and Decca catalogs.

Tun Tan Cheng Lock, who was a member of the Malayan Anti-Japanese League, was MCA's first president, but did not enter the cabinet on independence because his rival, Tun H. S.

In 1967, David Kapp sold his label to MCA Inc. and the label was placed under Uni Records management ; Kapp was consolidated with MCA's other record labels in 1971 and, in 1972, MCA Records released the last Kapp Record.

Following the sale, Geffen Records operated as one of MCA's leading independently managed labels.

In 1939, MCA's headquarters moved from Chicago to Beverly Hills, California, creating a movie division and beginning to acquire talent agencies and represent established actors such as James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Bette Davis, and Ronald Reagan, whom Wasserman became very close with personally.

Its aggressive acquisition of its clientele in all entertainment sectors earned MCA's nickname of The Octopus.

In 1948, Jules Stein moved up as MCA's first chairman, giving Lew Wasserman charge of day-to-day operations of the company as President.

Shortly afterward, she accepted a contract from MCA's sister record company, Decca Nashville in 1996.