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PolyGram N.V. was a multinational entertainment company and major music record label formerly based in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1962 as the Grammophon-Philips Group by Dutch corporation Philips and German corporation Siemens, to be a holding for their record companies, and was renamed "PolyGram" in 1972.
Polygram Entertainment is a partner of Universal Music Group that produces content for film and television based on music history and culture. It works across all genres to create documentaries, scripted and unscripted shows and feature films.
PolyGram ialah syarikat hiburan dan label rakaman muzik utama Belanda. Ia ditubuhkan pada tahun 1962 sebagai Grammophon-Philips Group oleh Philips Belanda dan Siemens Jerman, untuk menjadi pemegang syarikat rakaman mereka, dan dinamakan semula sebagai "Polygram" pada tahun 1972.
PolyGram acquired the recorded music and publishing arm of Island International Limited in July 1989 and the recorded music business of A&M Records, Inc. in January 1990. This was followed by Motown Records in 1993, part of Def Jam Recordings in 1994, and Rodven Discos in 1995.
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (formerly known as Filmworks, Casablanca Records & Filmworks, PolyGram Films and PolyGram Pictures or simply PFE) was a film production company founded in 1975 as an American film studio, which became a European competitor to Hollywood within two decades, but was eventually sold to Seagram Company Ltd. in 1998 and ...
American division of the European PolyGram, created in 1972 with the merging of the US Polydor and Mercury/Philips companies and terminated in 1999 when Seagram bought PolyGram and merged into Universal Music Group. Euro releases may show "PolyGram Records Inc. (New York)" or "Polygram Records Inc. N.Y.". Please mention in "Notes" Name variations:
Musician and documentary filmmaker Sacha Jenkins accessed the personal archive of legendary jazz trumpeter and singer Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong.
