RCA Records

=== World War II era ===
Due to hostilities between Japan and the United States during [[World War II]], ties between RCA Victor and its Japanese subsidiary [[JVC|Victor Company of Japan]] (Nippon Victor) were severed. JVC's record company is known today as [[Victor Entertainment]] and still retains the [[Nipper]]/[[His Master's Voice]] trademark for use in Japan.

From 1942 to 1944, RCA Victor was seriously impacted by the [[American Federation of Musicians]] [[1942–44 musicians' strike|recording ban]]. Virtually all union musicians in the US and Canada were forbidden from making recordings during the period. One of the few exceptions was the eventual release of recorded radio broadcast performances from the [[NBC Symphony Orchestra]] conducted by [[Arturo Toscanini]]. However, RCA Victor lost the [[Philadelphia Orchestra]] during this period; the orchestra's contract with RCA Victor expired during the strike and when [[Columbia Records]] settled with the union before RCA, [[Eugene Ormandy]] and the Philadelphians signed a new contract with Columbia and began recording in 1944. Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra would not return to RCA until 1968.