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...Music Week directory until he got through by chance to Maurice Oberstein, a senior executive at CBS Records. His persistence was rewarded with a job in the company's artists and repertoire (A&R) division, hunting for new songwriters and building their careers. Soon after, he moved over to RCA to do the same job and scored his first hit single in the U.S. - Olivia Newton-John's "Heart Attack," which was written by a Briton he had signed, Paul Bliss...
...Oscar ceremonies were traditionally funded by contributions from the major studios. But before the 25th Academy Awards, several of its primary financial supporters unexpectedly backed out.The Academy needed to secure another sponsor, or else to cancel the extravagance they’d planned. Just in time, RCA purchased the rights to broadcast the ceremony, and it was watched on NBC by the largest audience in the history of television at that time...
Almost from the start, however, legal troubles tangled NBC's corporate history. In 1931 antitrust issues forced RCA to split from General Electric; the orphaned company moved into new digs in New York City's Rockefeller Center (which remains its headquarters to this day). Despite a spirited rivalry with fellow broadcasting giant CBS in the golden age of radio, NBC ruled the dial - a supremacy that sparked further antitrust investigations from the newly created Federal Communications Commission. In 1939 the FCC ordered RCA to spin off NBC entirely; RCA, in a successful effort to avoid this outcome, instead sold...
...this kind of handiwork still carries a whiff of the cutting edge here at Brioni, the Italian luxury suitmaker known for dressing everyone from James Bond to Nelson Mandela. The Dutch-born Ter Meulen is one of 12 design students from London's Royal College of Art (RCA) who arrived in Italy this winter for a crash course in tailoring at the company's factory in Penne, a town of 12,000 tucked into the rolling hills of Abruzzo...
...include aspiring designers of women's wear, jewelry and shoes, the school believes the men's-tailoring know-how and Italian alta moda culture that rub off will be useful for the careers of all of them. "This is a chance to actually see real craft in action," says RCA program director Wendy Dagworthy. "It's important that the traditional methods aren't forgotten...