RCA

RCA Corporation is an electronics and broadcasting conglomerate. RCA’s subsidiaries include National Broadcasting Company (NBC). RCA was founded as the Radio Corporation of America by the General Electric Company in 1919 to acquire Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America (incorporated in 1899), at that time the only company capable of handling commercial transatlantic radio communications. General Electric took it over with the assistance of the U.S. Navy Department. In 1987, General Electric sold RCA's consumer-electronics division to the French corporation Thomson-Brandt, SA (later Thomson SA).