RCA

: This article is about the electronics, audio, and video company. RCA is also the abbreviation for The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery. RCA is also used for RCA jack.

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The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery - RCA jack

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RCA, formerly an initialism for the Radio Corporation of America, is now a trademark used by two companies for products descended from that common ancestor:

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Initialism - Trademark

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• Thomson SA, which manufactures consumer electronics like RCA-branded televisions, DVD players, video cassette recorders, direct broadcast satellite decoders, camcorders, audio equipment, telephones, and related accessories; and
• Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which owns the RCA Victor and RCA Records record labels it received from one of its parents, Bertelsmann AG.

The two companies bought those assets from General Electric, which took over the RCA conglomerate in 1986 and kept RCA's NBC broadcasting interests. Initially, GE continued to control the RCA trademarks (including the rights to the His Master's Voice trademark, or Nipper, in the Americas), which were then licensed to Thomson and Bertelsmann. Thomson eventually bought the RCA trademarks, subject to the perpetual license GE had issued to Sony BMG's predecessor.

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General Electric - 1986 - NBC - His Master's Voice - Nipper

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Although Bertelsmann AG is new to the RCA family (though the creation of Sony BMG is similar to that of EMI more than 70 years earlier), Thomson started as the French subsidiary of a company which later evolved into General Electric.

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