Editing General Electric (section)

===RCA and NBC===
Owen D. Young, who was then GE's general counsel and vice president, through GE, founded the [[Radio Corporation of America]] (RCA) in 1919.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Chandler, Jr. |first=Alfred D. |title=Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries, with a new preface |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2005 |isbn=0-674-01805-2 |pages=15 |language=en}}</ref> This came after Young, while working with senior naval officers, purchased the [[Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America]], which was a subsidiary of the British company Marconi Wireless and Signal Company.<ref name=":2" /> He aimed to expand international radio communications. GE used RCA as its retail arm for radio sales.<ref>Mahon, Morgan E. ''A Flick of the Switch 1930–1950'' (Antiques Electronics Supply, 1990), p. 86.</ref> In 1926, RCA co-founded the [[National Broadcasting Company]] (NBC), which built two radio broadcasting networks. In 1930, General Electric was charged with antitrust violations and was ordered to divest itself of RCA.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nocable.org/timeline/nbc-history|title=Timeline: The History of NBC|website=NoCable.org|language=en|access-date=March 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619140207/https://nocable.org/timeline/nbc-history|archive-date=June 19, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>