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In 1923 the Methodist Episcopal Church, South adopted the name Cokesbury for its own publishing concern, with headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee. [2] When the northern and southern branches of the Methodist Episcopal Church reunified in 1939, the name Abingdon-Cokesbury was chosen as the name of publishing house of the unitary Methodist ...
Word Entertainment is a Christian faith-based entertainment company based in Nashville, Tennessee.It is owned by Curb Records.Word Entertainment represents Francesca Battistelli, for King & Country, Switchfoot, Skillet, Sidewalk Prophets, Chris August, Big Daddy Weave, in addition to many others, and is home to Word Distribution, 25 Live, Word Music Publishing and Word Label Group's Word ...
In 2004, the company was sold again as part of Time Warner divestiture of its music division, selling it to a group of investors led by Edgar Bronfman Jr. to form a newly independent Warner Music Group. In March 2016, it was announced that Mike Curb acquired 100% of Word Entertainment (excluding the print music division) from Warner Music Group ...
Nashville, Tennessee Benson Records was founded by Bob Benson and John T. Benson, who formed the John T. Benson Music Publishing Company in 1902. [ 1 ] The record label started out as Heart Warming Records , creating house labels such as Impact Records, Greentree Records, RiverSong, StarSong , Power Discs and Home Sweet Home .
The music group was founded by Billy Ray Hearn in February 1976 as Sparrow Records.Sparrow was acquired by EMI in 1992. [2] Formerly known as EMI Christian Music Group, Capitol CMG is a division of Capitol Music Group, which is now a Universal Music Group company.
Howard Books (formerly Howard Publishing) is a Christian publishing company founded in 1969 by Alton Howard and previously based in West Monroe, Louisiana, but which relocated to Brentwood, Tennessee, (south of Nashville) in September 2009. [1] I Howard Books publishes inspirational content.
The new Sunday School Board took over the publishing operations in 1891. By 1960, the board was using the Broadman imprint. [15] In 1979, the Sunday School Board acquired bible publisher A. J. Holman from J. B. Lippincott & Co. [16] Holman started by acquiring the publishing activities of the Sower family. In 1993, the Holman Bible Company and ...
It was at this time that the Methodist Episcopal Church, South agreed to set up their publishing and distribution center in Nashville, Tennessee, [10] which is where the current UMPH headquarters are. The effects of this split between the church and the two book concerns would outlast the Civil War.