First instalment of the Cartoon Cartoons
That honour goes to What a Cartoon! , which first aired on February 20, 1995.
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Major record labels (former)
These two major were once part of the big six until 1999. EMI (founded March 31, 1931 as Electric and Musical Industries and folded into Universal Music Group on September 28, 2012) Predecessor companies, 1898-1931 Gramophone Company (founded April 1898) Independent, 1898-1929 Radio Corporation of America, 1929-1931 Columbia Graphophone Company (founded February 13, 1917) Columbia Phonograph Company, 1917-1922 Independent, 1922-1931 Radio Corporation of America, 1931-1935 Independent, 1935-1979 (as Electric and Musical Industries until 1971 and as EMI from 1971 onwards) Thorn EMI, 1979-1996 EMI Group, 1996-2007 Terra Firma Capital Partners, 2007-2011 Citigroup, 2011-2012 Polygram (founded 1962 as Grammophon-Philips Group and folded into Universal Music Group on December 10, 1998) Predecessor companies, 1898-1962 Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft (founded 1898) Independent, 1898-1941 Siemens, 1941-1962 Philips Phonografische Industrie (founded 1929 as Hollandsche Decca Distributie)...
Major record labels (current)
These three and one mini-major were once part of the big six until 1999. Sony Music Entertainment (founded September 9, 1929 as American Record Corporation) Predecessor company, 1885-1929 Scranton Button Company (founded 1885) Independent, 1885-1929 Independent, 1929-1938 CBS, 1938-1988 (as Columbia Records, USA until 1966 and as CBS Records from 1966 onwards) Sony Corporation of America, 1988-2004 (as CBS Records until 1991 and as Sony Music Entertainment from 1991 onwards) Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann, 2004-2008 (as Sony BMG Music Entertainment) Sony Corporation of America, 2008-2012 (as Sony Music Entertainment) Sony Entertainment, 2012-2019 Sony Music Group, 2019-present Universal Music Group (founded September 1934 as the American unit of Decca Records) Decca Records, 1934-1939 Independent, 1939-1962 MCA Inc., 1962-1990 (as MCA Records from 1971 until 1989 and as MCA Music Entertainment Group from 1989 onwards) Matsushita Electric, 1990-1995 Seagram, 1995-2000 (as M...