Founder(s) Lew Grade
Headquarters London, United Kingdom
Key people Michael Jackson
Services Music publishing
Owner(s) The Michael Jackson Family Trust (50%)
Sony (50%)
Website http://www.sonyatv.com/
http://www.sonyatv.com/index.php/contact
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Timeline of Sony/ATV Music Publishing
1955 - Lew Grade founds Associated Television (ATV).
1957 - ATV acquires Pye Records as a wholly-owned subsidiary.
1957 - ATV Music Publishing is created to exploit the songs owned by ATV.
1968 - ATV Music and Lew Grade acquire the rights to the Lennon/McCartney song catalogue, Northern Songs.
1985 - ATV Music Publishing and Pye Records are put up for sale. They are bought Robert Holmes à Court.
1985 - ATV Music Publishing and it's assets, Pye Records and Northern Songs, are again put up for sale. Singer Michael Jackson acquires them for $47.5 million.
1995 - Jackson merges ATV Music Publishing with Sony. He earns $90 million in the venture.
May 2001 - Jackson declares that the Beatles' songs "will never be for sale".
November 2001 - Sony/ATV Music Publishing acquires Tony Martin's Baby Mae Music catalogue of 600 songs.
July 2002 - Sony/ATV Music Publishing buy country music publisher Acuff-Rose for $157 million. The venture includes publishing rights to 55,000 songs.
2007 - Sony/ATV Music Publishing acquires Famous Music, a music publishing business with song catalogue of more than 125,000 songs.
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