Venture: Radio
Issue 153;
RCA Corp. was one of the hottest stocks in the 1920s. Radio was a new technology that could communicate with the masses at low cost. It would transform the world, and it took off like the internet in the late 1990s. And like the internet, a bust followed the boom.
Radio Corporation of America

The company went on to do great things in film and television. It was eventually acquired by GE in 1986. In 1987, the consumer electronics division was sold to the French firm Thomson, later Technicolour. RCA Records was sold to Bertelsmann (BMG) in 1987, while GE kept NBC and some government and military electronics and services units.
Radio eventually became digital, and after a similar excitement in the late 1990s, today’s Venture recommendation has become highly profitable.
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