S entered World War I, the federal government seized the foreign stations, and later gave them to the U. These companies set up a new organization in to run the stations, and called it the Radio Corporation of America RCA.
For a time, RCA operated radio stations still almost entirely used for transmitting Morse Code and sold radio equipment manufactured by its parent companies.
However, many amateur operators were now on the air, and the resulting popularity of radio listening encouraged the parent companies to move in this direction.
Westinghouse obtained a license from the U. S government to launch a commercial broadcasting station in and launched KDKA, the first commercial radio station. The huge research effort necessary for television encouraged the company to create a permanent research facility.
After the war RCA returned its attention to television, designing inexpensive receivers and sponsoring the creation of a new NBC television network to provide programming.
Its research laboratories produced innovative technologies in these years and helped advance computers, integrated circuits, lasers, and other devices.
It introduced innovative products like the rpm record and the solid-state television camera. However, the company was finding it increasingly difficult to sell its traditional line of products. By the s Asian firms had captured almost all of the consumer electronics market TVs, radios, etc. Corporate managers found that is was cheaper to sell foreign-made products in the U. S than to make them at home, so by the s most RCA-branded consumer products were made of Asian parts, or were assembled outside the U.
By the s, virtually the only U. This story can be discovered in greater detail at Hagley, which holds the collections of the former David Sarnoff Library of Princeton , as well as the RCA Victor Camden records and photographs.
We hope to welcome you soon! Search form Search. RCA years! Monday, November 18, Let us take you on the journey from RCA's beginning through its technological advancements over the past years. Scroll down to see all the history, as we will take you on a journey of innovation. American Marconi was involved in high-powered alternators for transatlantic transmissions and the American Navy, and in the interest of national security, wanted an all-American company to own the assets.
In , two naval officers, Admiral H. Bullard and Commander S. Hooper, met with General Electric's president, Owen D. Young, and proposed that GE purchase American Marconi and use the assets to form its own radio communications subsidiary. Young consented to this proposal, which, effective November 20, , transformed American Marconi into the Radio Corporation of America. RCA purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the world's largest manufacturer of both records and phonographs, including its popular showcase "Victrola" line.
This acquisition was organized as a new subsidiary called RCA Victor. Following what would actually be many years of additional research and millions of dollars, RCA demonstrated an all-electronic black-and-white television system at the New York World's Fair.
The first RCA consumer color televisions were produced in
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