* MCA Inc., a now defunct company ( originally called Music Corporation of America ) and its subsidiary companies:

It was founded in 1991 under the name SMSG, Inc. ( for San Mateo Software Group ) by Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins in a partnership with seven companies, including LG, Matsushita ( now Panasonic ), AT & T, MCA, Time Warner and Electronic Arts.

Creature from the Black Lagoon was filmed and originally released in 3-D requiring polarized 3-D glasses, and subsequently reissued in the 1970s in the inferior anaglyph format ( this version was released on home video by MCA Videocassette, Inc. in 1980 ).

MCA, Inc. ( or Music Corporation of America ) was an American talent agency.

MCA, Inc. is the legal predecessors of NBCUniversal, a joint venture between Comcast and General Electric.

The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange and was incorporated as MCA Inc. on November 10, 1958.

In 1964, MCA formed Universal City Studios, Inc. to merged both Universal Pictures and Revue Productions division.

In 1995, Seagram Company Ltd. acquired 80 % of MCA from Panasonic and the following year the new owners dropped the MCA name ; the company became Universal Studios, Inc. and its music division, MCA Music Entertainment Group, was renamed Universal Music Group.

MCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group ( now Universal Music Group ), of which MCA Records was still part.

In the same year, the MCA Inc. parent company was purchased by the Matsushita group.

The following year, the new owners dropped the MCA name ; the company became Universal Studios, Inc. and its music division, MCA Music Entertainment Group, was renamed Universal Music Group ( UMG ), headed by Morris.

As a result, Universal Music Group is instead traded as MCA Music, Inc. Philippines in that country.

* Fixx, Jim, Jim Fixx On Running ( Laserdisc ), MCA Videodisc, Inc .; ( 1980 ) Color, 53 minutes

Tarnopol blamed his legal problems on a personal vendetta by Decca parent MCA Inc .' s head Lew Wasserman.

MCA Inc. bought American Decca in 1962.

Although this was LJN's first foray into the video game business, it was not for MCA who had previously started MCA Video Games, as a joint venture with Atari, Inc., to create coin-operated and home games and computer software based on various MCA properties.

To address anti-trust concerns, MCA set up a separate company, EMKA, Ltd., to sell these films to television.

The deal ultimately earned David Geffen an estimated US $ 800 million in stock ( until the Japanese conglomerate, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd .' s cash acquisition of MCA in 1991, made Geffen a billionaire ) and an employment contract that ran until 1995.

* Burl Ives recorded a single called " The Tail of the Comet Kohoutek / A Very Fine Lady " ( 1974, 7 in., 45 rpm, MCA 40175 ).

Signing to MCA in the U. S., the band released the album Blind Faith in 1990 and toured supporting Foreigner, Nils Lofgren and the Dan Reed Network before Cairns joined Gibson Guitars USA as Special Projects manager.

Bronfman, Jr., used the proceeds of the sale to help acquire Universal Studios, MCA, PolyGram, and Deutsche Grammophon.

After PolyGram took over British Decca, classical-music albums recorded by British Decca continued to be released on the London label in the U. S., with a logo similar to the Decca classical label logo, until American Decca owner MCA Records bought British Decca owner PolyGram in 1998, which formed Universal Music, after which they were all reissued on the original British Decca label in the U. S.

The album is extensively broken down track-by-track by Mike D, MCA, Ad-Rock, Mario Caldato Jr., and Money Mark in Brian Coleman's book Check the Technique.

Through its substantial holding of companies such as Huaren Holdings, MCA also controls five other significant media press companies, i. e., The Star, being Malaysia's best-selling English language newspaper Sin Chew Jit Poh, Nanyang Siang Pau, and China Press, being three of the best-selling Chinese newspapers in Kuala Lumpur and Central Region of West Malaysia ; and Guang Ming Daily being a smaller press in northern West Malaysia as the owner of these four presses are owned by media tycoon Tiong Hiew King where his family members are the major party of the ruling coalition in Sarawak.

* MCA Television Entertainment ( commonly known as MTE ) was the specialty division of MCA Television Ltd., focusing on TV movies for cable and network television, as well as direct to video fare.

Also, it offers postgraduate degrees such as MBA, MCA, M. E., M. Sc.

Because of the unrelated label in the Philippines owning the rights to the Universal Records name in that country, parent company Universal Music Group does business there as MCA Music, Inc., using UMG's former name.

In December 1995, Gannett ( who owned former Crosley station WXIA-TV in Atlanta ) acquired Multimedia, Inc., while the respective syndication division was acquired by MCA Universal.

Formed in late 1994 through a joint partnership between Australis Media, Columbia TriStar, MCA, Viacom and Tele-Communications Inc., Showtime started broadcasting in 1995 as part of the basic package on the now-defunct Galaxy service, showing first-run films.

Meanwhile, however, Montgomery was distributing Harvey's animated catalogue in every market, and sold 20 % of the company to MCA Inc., parent company of Universal Studios.

Tony Brown brought in one of his top producers, Emory Gordy, Jr., to help develop Loveless for MCA.

When the talent agency Music Corporation of America ( better known as MCA ), then wielding major influence on Paramount policy, offered $ 50 million for 750 features released prior to December 1, 1949 ( with payment to be spread over many years ), a cash-strapped Paramount thought it had made the best possible deal.

Tony Randall already had the part, but talent agency MCA realized that with this movie, Martin would become a triple threat: they could make money from his work in night clubs, movies, and records.

The rules were passed to the 1950s generation of MCA talent agents including a. Jerold Perenchio who'd later own and head a number of businesses including the 1992 to 2007 version of Univision.

By the end of the 1930s, MCA would become the largest talent agency in the world with over 700 clients which includes movie stars, recording artists, Broadway actors, radio stars, producers, and directors.

At first however, the company first needs to get a waiver from The Screen Actors Guild which ruled at the time that talent agencies such as MCA were prohibited from producing TV shows or films.

MCA was forced to exit the talent agency business in order to complete the merger.

MCA struggled to gain ground in Hollywood since major agencies like those belonging to Charles Feldman, Myron Selznick, and Leland Hayward had already grabbed up most of the major talent.

She married Jack Bean, a talent agent and public relations executive for MCA, in San Francisco, California on November 18, 1954.

In 1939 the talent agency MCA asked Bobby Hackett to form a big band with their backing.

In 1992 he won Dick Clark ’ s USA Music Challenge talent contest and received an MCA recording contract.

) The larger paychecks also increased the power of talent agents such as Lew Wasserman of MCA, whose office was now nicknamed " Fort Knox ".

Lash was based on real-life mega-agent Jules Stein, the founder of powerhouse talent agency MCA, and Lash's Hucksters protégé Freddie Callahan, who bore an undeniable physical resemblance to Lew Wasserman, Stein's protégé in 1946 who would eventually head MCA himself.