RCA Corporation, founded as
Radio Corporation of America, was an electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. Currently, the
RCA trademark is owned by the
French conglomerate
Thomson SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Thomson. The trademark is used by
Sony Music Entertainment and Thomson SA, which licenses the name to other companies like
Audiovox and
TCL Corporation for products descended from that common ancestor.
[RCA.com - RCA-Brand]
Origins
Organization by General Electric
On August 4, 1914, the
United Kingdom and
France declared war on
Germany and
Austria-Hungary, starting
World War I. Radio traffic across the Atlantic Ocean increased dramatically after the Germans cut Allied cable telegraphs.
