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===MCA Inc.=== Matsushita bought American media company [[MCA Inc.]] for US$6.6 billion.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-26-mn-4086-story.html| title=It's a Wrap: MCA Sold: Matsushita to Pay About $6.6 Billion| access-date=April 14, 2013| work=[[The Los Angeles Times]]| date=November 26, 1990}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/01/business/who-gets-what-from-mca-deal.html|title=Who Gets What From MCA Deal| access-date=April 14, 2013| work=[[The New York Times]]| date=December 1, 1990}}</ref> In 1995, it sold 80% of MCA's shares to Canadian drink company [[Seagram]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/07/business/seagram-heads-for-hollywood-seagram-will-buy-80-of-big-studio-from-matsushita.html| title=Seagram heads for Hollywood; Seagram will buy 80% of big studio from Matsushita| access-date=April 14, 2013| work=The New York Times|date=April 7, 1995}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/28/business/matsushita-freed-of-mca-reports-a-profit.html| title=Matsushita, Freed of MCA, Reports a Profit| access-date=April 14, 2013| work=The New York Times| date=August 28, 1996}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-04-07-mn-52060-story.html|title=Matsushita to Sell 80% of MCA to Seagram Co. : Business: Distiller to pay about $7.1 billion. Japanese owner and Hollywood giant clashed often over five years.|last=BATES|first=JAMES|date=April 7, 1995|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=February 27, 2018|issn=0458-3035}}</ref> MCA was renamed Universal Studios Inc. in 1996,<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/stories/1996/12/09/daily1.html| title=MCA changes name to Universal Studios Inc.| work=[[American City Business Journals|Orlando Business Journal]]| date=December 9, 1996| first=E. Scott| last=Reckard}}</ref> after which its motion picture business has changed hands continuously, [[Vivendi]], [[General Electric]] and [[Comcast]] in order, while the music division has become [[Universal Music Group]], acquired and wholly owned by Vivendi up until 2019.<ref>{{Cite news|date=December 31, 2019|title=Tencent Group Buys 10% of Universal Music for $3.4 Billion|language=en|work=Bloomberg.com|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-31/tencent-group-clinches-deal-for-10-of-vivendi-s-universal-music|access-date=March 19, 2021 |first1=Thomas |last1=Pfeiffer }}</ref>
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