{"id":17202,"date":"2014-02-03T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=17202"},"modified":"2014-02-02T14:47:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T21:47:33","slug":"newsletter-issue-740-of-rca-and-motorola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2014\/02\/newsletter-issue-740-of-rca-and-motorola\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #740: Of RCA and Motorola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re not a baby boomer, you may not recognize the name RCA, but even our younger readers know something about Motorola. Despite this, both companies have long histories, but nothing is forever.<\/p>\n<p>So RCA Corporation, originally known as Radio Corporation of America, was founded in 1919. Among its achievements was the NBC network, which it founded in 1926 as the result of the acquisition of several radio stations. 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