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In June 2003, the formal His Master's Voice trademark transfer took place from EMI Records to HMV Media Group plc. [9] In January 2013, HMV Group plc would later be rescued by Hilco Capital, who retained the His Master's Voice trademark rights when they sold the HMV stores to Sunrise Records. [10]
In February 1998, EMI entered into a joint venture with Advent International to form HMV Media Group led by Alan Giles, which acquired HMV's shops and Dillons, leaving EMI with a holding of around 45%. [19] The new joint venture then bought the Waterstones chain of bookshops to merge with Dillons. [20]
The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American recording company and phonograph manufacturer, incorporated in 1901. Victor was an independent enterprise until 1929 when it was purchased by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and became the RCA Victor Division of the Radio Corporation of America until late 1968, when it was renamed RCA Records.
RCA sold its stake in EMI in 1935, but due to its 1929 takeover of Victor, RCA retained the North and South American rights to the "His Master's Voice" trademark. In other countries, the Nipper logo was used by the EMI subsidiary label HMV, even though the "His Master's Voice" slogan itself would be retained by RCA along with the logo.
I propose merging His Master's Voice (British record label) into Gramophone Company.Yesterday, I renamed List of HMV POP artists to His Master's Voice (British record label), under the belief that His Master's Voice became its own record label under the production of its HMV POP series in 1952, however on closer inspection, these recordings still have "The Gramophone Company" on as its ...
HMV was founded as a classical label. [1] From December 1899, the predecessor to EMI, the Gramophone Company , had purchased the His Master's Voice painting from Francis Barraud , and, from 1909, began using the phrase "His Master's Voice" and likeness of Nipper on its releases.
A four-ton Nipper can be seen on the roof of the former RCA distribution building now owned by Arnoff Moving & Storage. [18] The site is located at 991 Broadway in Albany, New York. [12] A statue of Nipper was purchased by Jim Wells from RCA in Baltimore for $1, where it originally graced the former RCA Building on Russell Street.
RCA Records is an American record label.Since 2008, it has been owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.. RCA Records is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside RCA's former long-time rival Columbia Records; also Arista Records, and Epic Records.