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GE
General
Electric (GE) formed the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) as an
operating company for the purpose of providing radio communication
equipment and service. RCA functioned as the exclusive distributing
agent for communications apparatus made for it by
GE, Westinghouse
and The Wireless Specialties Apparatus Company. RCA also distributed vacuum
tubes manufactured by these companies. RCA was formed by GE on
October 17, 1919. On
November 20,
1919, the American Marconi Company was merged into RCA.
A
cross-licensing agreement was affected between RCA and GE. On
July 1,
1920, a cross-licensing agreement was signed between GE
and AT&T. By another agreement on the same date, the rights to
the patents outlined in the cross-licensing agreement were extended
to RCA and the Western Electric Company. A similar cross-licensing
agreement between RCA and the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company was signed
June 30, 1921. Through these patent
licensing and manufacturing arrangements RCA controlled most of
the
technology for providing broadcast radio receiving
equipment.
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