Radio Corporation Of New Zealand

Please use the branded label as primary label and, if a company is required, use this for all NZ RCA and related releases before 1975. Trading name for Radio Corporation Of New Zealand Ltd. In October 1975 the company lost the rights to RCA in NZ to RCA Limited Auckland, New Zealand, part of the RCA Limited Australia and New Zealand. conglomerate. The Radio Corporation of New Zealand began operations in 1928 when the company was formed by William Markov. It released the first entirely NZ made recording on its TANZA label in 1949, when it opened its pressing plant that year, to add to its studio complex in Wellington Radio Corporation of NZ picked the rights to the catalogue of RCA Victor and its related labels in 1956 and for many years the labels carried the "RCA-Radio Corporation of New Zealand" phrasing. In 1958 the company was bought outright by GA Wooller & Co. Ltd. The Radio Corporation of New Zealand Ltd. continued as a subsidiary of G.A. Wooller & Co. Ltd. It was struck off in 1984.