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The Sony/ATV Story
Sony/ATV's origins date back to 1955 when British-based media businessman and impresario Lew Grade founded Associated Television (ATV). In 1957, ATV acquired Pye Records as a wholly-owned subsidiary. At the time, Pye Records was one of the three major record companies in the UK and, along with EMI and Decca Records, accounted for the vast majority of records sold in the country.
ATV Music Publishing was then created to exploit the catalog of songs written by artists on the Pye Record label and for the themes to Independent Television Corporation and ATV programs. Grade established ATV's headquarters alongside those of Pye Records, off of Edgware Road, beside the Marble Arch in central London. Under Grade, ATV Music Publishing's acquisitions included in 1968 Northern Songs, which had been set up five years earlier to look after songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
The ATV song catalog, including Northern Song, was eventually acquired in 1985 by Michael Jackson and was then merged in December 1995 with Sony Music Publishing to form Sony/ATV Music Publishing.
In 2012 Sony/ATV led a consortium to acquire EMI Music Publishing, creating the world's leading music publishing company.
