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2000 62nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at RCA Dome Indianapolis

1985 General Electric acquires RCA Corp and its subsidiary, NBC

1971 David Sarnoff, U.S. TV pioneer (RCA), dies at 80

1960 RCA TIROS (TV and Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched

1956 RCA Records reports Elvis Presley sold over 10 million records

1956 Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA

1956 Elvis Presley records Heartbreak Hotel for RCA in Nashville

1955 RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records and Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck driver from Tupelo Miss

1955 RCA demonstrates 1st music synthesizer

1954 RCA manufactures 1st color TV set, a 12-inch screen for $1,000

1953 FCC approves RCA's black and white - compatible color TV specifications

1952 "RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day," debuts on NBC TV

1949 RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)

1949 RCA introduces 45 RPM record

1941 Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA

1940 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pa

1940 RCA demonstrated its new electron microscope in Philadelphia

1940 Artie Shaw records "Frenesi" on RCA Victor label

1939 NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with Franklin D. Roosevelt at opening of New York World's Fair

1937 NBC and RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of NY

1936 RCA displays TV for press

1936 RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show and monologue from Tobacco Road and comedy)

1934 RCA Victor re leases 1st 33 1/3 rpm recording (Beethoven's 5th)

1931 1st LP record demonstrated (RCA Victor, New York City), venture failed

1926 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)

1926 AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA (New York City)

1919 Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created

1917 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step," recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ

1892 Ezio Pinza, Rome, Italy, bass singer, South Pacific, RCA Victor Show

1891 David Sarnoff, U.S., radio/TV pioneer/CEO, RCA



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