Some titles were still available as eight-track tapes through Columbia House and RCA ( BMG ) Music Service Record Clubs until late 1988.

This transmitter had lain unused at the factory after the United States Federal Communications Commission imposed a 50 kW power limit on all U. S. stations, and so RCA was glad to sell it overseas and the British Secret Service bought it for £ 165, 000.

His commercial clients include: AT & T, Audi, Canon, Chase, Coca-Cola, Dr Pepper, Fidelity, Kodak, Levi's, L ' Oréal, Marlboro, Mercedes-Benz, Motorola, Nike, Panasonic, Pepsi, RCA, Showtime, Sprint, Sprite, Unisys, UPS, US Postal Service, VISA Gold as well as MTV, ABC, CBS and NBC.

Akimbo had also released its new RCA Akimbo Player which was a set top box that offers up to 100 hours of recording and was connected to the Akimbo Video On Demand Service.

In 2005, longtime competitor BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. ( formerly the RCA Music Service or RCA Record Club ) purchased Columbia House and consolidated operations.

Bertelsmann Music Group acquired RCA that same year, and renamed Columbia House's only surviving rival, RCA Music Service ( formerly RCA Record Club ), to BMG Music Service.

Burroughs was one of the eight major United States computer companies ( with IBM, the largest, Honeywell, NCR Corporation, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, RCA and UNIVAC ) through most of the 1960s.

The six computer manufacturers were Burroughs Corporation, IBM, Minneapolis-Honeywell ( Honeywell Labs ), RCA, Sperry Rand, and Sylvania Electric Products.

In an RCA ( Radio Corporation of America ) advertisement in Popular Science Magazine describing a new " memory " vacuum tube it had developed, RCA stated:

As a designer for the Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ), in 1924, Richard H. Ranger invented the wireless photoradiogram, or transoceanic radio facsimile, the forerunner of today ’ s " fax " machines.

Shrinking demand and tough competition started a shakeout in the market in the early 1970s — RCA sold out to UNIVAC and GE also left ; in the 1980s Honeywell was bought out by Bull ; UNIVAC became a division of Sperry, which later merged with Burroughs to form Unisys Corporation in 1986.

: This article is about the former RCA Corporation.

RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was an American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986.

The RCA trademark is used by Sony Music Entertainment and Technicolor, which licenses the name to other companies like Audiovox and TCL Corporation for products descended from that common ancestor.

The following cooperation among RCA, General Electric, the United Fruit Company, the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and American Telephone & Telegraph ( AT & T ) brought about innovations in high-power radio technology, and also the founding of the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) in the US.

In 1955, RCA sold its Estate large appliance operations to Whirlpool Corporation.

RCA was one of several major computer companies ( see also: Computing ) that also included IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, Burroughs, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR and Sperry Rand through most of the 1960s.

During the late 1960s and 1970s, RCA Corporation, as it was now formally known, ventured into other markets.

RCA Laboratories was transferred to SRI International as the David Sarnoff Research Center, subsequently renamed Sarnoff Corporation.

The shallow and deep groundwater aquifers beneath the Intersil Facility in Mountaintop, Pennsylvania, which RCA operated in the 1960s and later sold to Harris Corporation, contain elevated levels of volatile organic compounds.

RCA Corporation used the name Quiet Channel, or QC.

Horsting of the RCA Corporation published a paper which reported test results on the reliability of semiconductor devices in which the connections were made using aluminium wires bonded ultrasonically to gold plated posts.

Other major satellite manufacturers include Space Systems / Loral, Orbital Sciences Corporation with the STAR Bus series, Indian Space Research Organization, Lockheed Martin ( owns the former RCA Astro Electronics / GE Astro Space business ), Northrop Grumman, Alcatel Space, now Thales Alenia Space, with the Spacebus series, and Astrium.

CDC was one of the nine major United States computer companies through most of the 1960s ; the others were IBM, Burroughs Corporation, DEC, NCR, General Electric, Honeywell, RCA, and UNIVAC.

Companies that had pioneered these advances, like Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ) and General Motors, saw their stocks soar.

For the recording of The Sorcerer's Apprentice in January 1938, engineers at Disney collaborated with RCA Corporation for using multiple audio channels which allowed any desired dynamic balance to be achieved upon playback.

While the compositions and performances were credited to " Jimmy Thudpucker ", they were in fact co-written and sung by Brewer, who also co-wrote and provided the vocals for " Ginny's Song ", a 1976 single on the Warner Bros. Label, and Jimmy Thudpucker's Greatest Hits, an LP released by Windsong Records, John Denver's subsidiary of RCA Records ).

The single " hot " signal wire and signal ground provided by an RCA connection implement an unbalanced connection.

In 1941, RCA introduced in-car speakers with individual volume controls which solved the noise pollution issue and provided satisfactory sound to drive-in patrons.

It also noted that Duffy worked at Chicago Venues: The House of Blues, The Cubby Bear and The Cabaret Metro / Metro Chicago as stage manager and sound engineer ; provided engineering and technical support at Chicago Trax recording studios ; and had contributed to releases on a plethora of large and independent record labels including 21st Circuitry, Bit Riot Records, BMG / RCA / D-Tribe Records, Cargo Music / Re-constriction Records, Conscience Records, Cracknation Records, Crash Music Inc., E-Magine Records, Failure To Communicate Records / FTC Records, Fifth Colvmn Records, Glitch Mode Recordings, Invisible Records / Underground, Inc., Island / Def Jam Records, Katharsis Records, Metropolis Records, MOGworld Records, Tinman Records, TVT Records, Warner Bros. Records, Wax Trax!

Other vehicles were provided for individual squadrons and in 1939 Hotchkiss H35 and H39 light tanks were received by the 1er RCA.

An implementation contract was awarded in the fall of 1959 to Western Union as prime contractor and system integrator, RCA to build the 5 switching center computers and IBM for the compound terminals which provided for both IBM punched card and Teletype data entry.

Video content existed on a special computer-controlled CED player provided by RCA.

The RD2204A can also be used with a third party CF reader, provided that the user installs the RCA software on the PC.

Concurrent with the release of his debut album ; RCA provided the industry introductions in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, and New York.

The battery provided light anti-aircraft artillery support as part of the 11th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RCA, CASF, 1st Canadian Anti-Aircraft Brigade in Great Britain.

Many smaller computer companies had come and gone in the 1950s, wiped out when new technical developments rendered their platforms obsolete, and even large companies like RCA and General Electric were failing to make a profit in the market.

From May 1934 until October 1935, Armstrong conducted the first large scale field tests of his FM radio technology from a laboratory constructed by RCA on the 85th floor of the Empire State Building.

* The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, known as the Orthodox Union, or " OU ", and the Rabbinical Council of America, " RCA " are organizations that represent Modern Orthodox Judaism, a large segment of Orthodoxy in the United States and Canada.

As the years went on, RCA either took over, or produced for itself, a large number of patents, including that of the superheterodyne receiver.

In an attempt to duplicate the Sun Records sound, RCA used a large empty hallway at the studio to create an echo, but it sounded nothing like the echo that Phillips had created at Sun Records.

Rocky Point is home to the site where American radio company RCA once operated a very large transmitting and transmitter research facility, known as Radio Central.

Jive's distribution deal with RCA expired in 1991, at which time BMG purchased a large minority stake Zomba's records division ( including Jive ) and became its distributor.

The biggest studios were owned and operated by large media companies like RCA, Columbia and EMI, who typically had their own electronics research and development divisions that designed and built custom-made recording equipment and mixing consoles for their studios.

In the mid-twentieth century, the majority of large recording companies manufactured both gramophones and records ; Philips CEO Anton Philips noted the risk in creating gramophones without an interest in music recording and record manufacture, and that Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ) had merged with the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1929 for this reason.

Within three days of the project's birth, Cooder, Gold and de Marcos had organized a large group of performers and arranged for recording sessions to commence at Havana's EGREM Studios, formerly owned by RCA records, where the equipment and atmosphere had remained unchanged since the 1950s.

After being included on a free sampler CD on the industry magazine The Tip Sheet, the song caught the attention of numerous large record labels including EMI, Parlophone and RCA, thanks mostly to the efforts of Jonathan King.

The older version of this model which was sold in the 1970s and 1980s has a large plate where the RCA and ground wires enter the unit, while the newer version has a smaller hole in the rubber where the RCA and ground enter.

A large modern complex in the US that adopted Venetian blinds was Rockefeller Center ’ s RCA Building ( better known as the Radio City building ) in New York City, completed in the 1930s.

In the late 1930s she made three movies for RKO ; there is a large legacy of recordings, mostly on the RCA Victor and Columbia labels, many of which are available on CD.

Over seven decades of his concert career, starting in the 1920s, Cherkassky made a large number of recordings for RCA Victor, Vox, Swedish Cupol label, HMV, DG ( the famous Tchaikovsky concerto recordings ), Tudor, Nimbus and Decca (' live ' BBC recordings ).

RCA was promoting the superiority of its metal tube designs in the second half of the 1930s, and this tube, having been introduced during that period, was produced in large quantities in this format.

In contrast to his signature recordings during the RCA / BMG years ( 1996 – 2003 ), where much of his focus was on projects involving large ensembles, big bands and chamber orchestras, Harrell's more recent works demonstrate his skills as a leader of a tight, smaller unit.

At the time of the merger English Electric Computers was in the process of making a line of large IBM System / 360-compatible mainframes based on the RCA Spectra 70, which was sold as the ICL System-4.

The end of the deal coincided with BMG purchasing a large share of RCA and a deal with BMG was signed for distribution.