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Radio Corporation of America

Also Known As RCA
Broadcasters

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.

Facts
Founding Year
1919 2
Headquarters
New York City, New York, United States 2
Classification
Status
Merged or Acquired 1
Connections

Associated With

Cathode-Ray Tube, Technologies
Chroma Key, Technologies

Bluescreen compositing traces to 1930s work at RCA, refined afterward by named individual pioneers (Larry Butler, Petro Vlahos), neither of whom has an entry in this atlas yet.

Source Wikipedia
Additional Source Wikipedia: RCA CorporationChroma key, Development section, RCA origins of bluescreen compositing
David Sarnoff, Figures

Led RCA as general manager, president and chairman, driving NBC's creation in 1926.

Source Wikipedia
Additional Source Wikipedia: RCA Corporation
Edwin Armstrong, Figures

Filed a patent infringement lawsuit against RCA over his FM radio inventions in 1948, litigation that lasted until his death in 1954.

National Broadcasting Company, Organizations

RCA founded NBC in 1926.

Source Wikipedia
Additional Source Wikipedia: RCA Corporation
Sound on Film, Technologies
Source Sound film (Wikipedia)
Vacuum Tube, Technologies
Vladimir Zworykin, Figures

Developed the iconoscope and kinescope at RCA's research laboratories.

In Medium

Radio, Media Forms
Television, Media Forms

Milestones Credited

Introduction of Color Television Broadcasting, Milestones

The NTSC color standard the FCC approved in 1953 was RCA-backed.

Source Wikipedia

Technologies Developed

Liquid Crystal Display, Technologies
Source New World Encyclopedia
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Located In

United States

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is located.

Sources
1. Wikipedia: RCA Corporation
  • Infobox, Fate
    Acquired by GE in 1986, various divisions sold or liquidated, and trademark rights sold to Thomson SA in 1988.
  • National Broadcasting Company section
    In 1926, the company founded the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), the first nationwide radio network.
  • infobox
  • introductory section
  • Associated With: National Broadcasting Company
    In 1926, the company founded the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), the first nationwide radio network.
  • Associated With: David Sarnoff
  • Associated With: Chroma Key, Chroma key, Development section, RCA origins of bluescreen compositing
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2. Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationMilestones Credited: Introduction of Color Television Broadcasting
Quote, 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.
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New World Encyclopedia
Technologies Developed: Liquid Crystal Display, New World Encyclopedia: Liquid crystal display, History section
Quote, Technologies Developed: Liquid Crystal Display, New World Encyclopedia: Liquid crystal display, History section
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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Sound film (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Sound on Film, Sound film, section Triumph of the talkies
Quote, Associated With: Sound on Film, Sound film, section Triumph of the talkies
RCA division, which was looking to market its new sound-on-film system
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