Word: rko
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Steadily proceeding with the expansion of its entertainment business, Radio Corp. of America last week secured for itself distribution in Great Britain. Through RKO Export Corp., sub-subsidiary of Radio Corp., direct subsidiary of Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Inc., an arrangement was made with a British distributing company, Ideal Films, Ltd., to handle the 1929-30 output of Radio Pictures. Ideal Films, Ltd. is an affiliate of Gaumont, the British chain which controls more than 300 theatres in the most populous British cities...
...with sound and without, are Fox Film Corp., Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp., Warner Bros., United Artists. Yet one potent Talking Cinema company backs its speaking present with no silent past. This company is opulent, many-branched Radio Corp. of America. In Photophone it has its own talking mechanism. In RKO Productions, Inc., it has its own production and distribution company. In General Electric and Westinghouse Electric it has tremendous laboratory resources. During 1929-30 there will be made 30 full-length and 52 short Radio pictures, all of which will talk, many of which will also sing. In these pictures...
...Albee and Orpheum theatre circuits merged, the combination also acquiring control of F. B. O. Pictures Corp., cinema producer and distributor. In October 1928, the Keith-Albee-Orpheum combination sold control to Radio Corp. and Radio-Keith-Orpheum, a holding company, was formed. KAO lost money in 1928. The RKO management, with David Sarnoff as Board Chairman, showed an operating profit of $181,373 for the first quarter...
...orchestra leader, will soon be seen and heard in a Radio talkie. He can make Radio-Victor records of the featured songs. He can broadcast them over National Broadcasting Co.'s chain of 53 stations (N. B. C. is 50% owned by Radio Corp.). He can appear at RKO theatres. Cinema, radio, phonograph, vaudeville-Radio Corp. is very much in them...
...with it a share of Seaboard National Corp., the bank's security affiliate. Seaboard's President Chellis A. Austin continues as president of the merged bank; Equitable's President Arthur W. Loasby becomes Board Chairman. Said the official statement: "logical alliance . . . substantially multiply measure of service." RKO-Proctor. "I am going to get right after this thing," said, last winter newly-elected Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp.'s President Hiram Staunton Brown, onetime leather man (TIME, Dec. 10). Results of getting after it were last week evident with the Radio-Keith-Orpheum purchase...