RCA Records

…50 countries, including Arista and RCA in the United States). In 2001 the firm gained a controlling interest in the Luxembourg-based RTL Group, Europe’s largest producer of radio, television, and movie content and operator of numerous radio and TV stations across the continent.

…York-based publishing house, and the RCA record company. The latter purchase made the Bertelsmann Music Group one of the world’s major record labels. In 1981, Bertelsmann experienced a major change in leadership when Reinhard Mohn stepped down as CEO, making philanthropy one of his priorities. Before that, in 1977, he…

…enterprises, Hill and Range and RCA Victor, respectively. Sun received a total of $35,000; Elvis got $5,000. He began recording at RCA’s studios in Nashville, Tennessee, with a somewhat larger group of musicians but still including Moore, Black, and Fontana, and began to create a national sensation with a series…