An American electronics and media company, founded 20 November 1919, that dominated radio manufacturing and broadcasting for over five decades. It founded the National Broadcasting Company in 1926, the first nationwide radio network, and went on to become a pioneer of television broadcasting and, later, color television technology.
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Founding Year HeadquartersNew York City, New York, United States 2 Connections
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Chroma Key, Technologies Bluescreen compositing traces to 1930s work at RCA, refined afterward by named individual pioneers (Larry Butler, Petro Vlahos) neither yet minted in this atlas; see filed MintCandidate rows.
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Led RCA as general manager, president and chairman, driving NBC's creation in 1926.
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Filed a patent infringement lawsuit against RCA over his FM radio inventions in 1948, litigation that lasted until his death in 1954.
RCA founded NBC in 1926.
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Developed the iconoscope and kinescope at RCA's research laboratories.
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Milestones Credited
The NTSC color standard the FCC approved in 1953 was RCA-backed.
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Technologies Developed
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1. Wikipedia: RCA Corporation
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Acquired by GE in 1986, various divisions sold or liquidated, and trademark rights sold to Thomson SA in 1988.
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Wikimedia FoundationNational Broadcasting Company section
In 1926, the company founded the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), the first nationwide radio network.
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Associated With: National Broadcasting Company
In 1926, the company founded the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), the first nationwide radio network.
Milestones Credited: Introduction of Color Television Broadcasting
The first network broadcast to go out over the air in NTSC color was a performance of the opera Carmen on 31 October 1953.
- Associated With: David Sarnoff
- Associated With: Chroma Key, Chroma key, Development section, RCA origins of bluescreen compositing
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The first operational LCD was based on the Dynamic Scattering Mode (DSM) and was introduced in 1968 by a group at RCA in the United States, headed by George Heilmeier.
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