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The Universal Music Group (abbreviated as UMG, or simply Universal Music) are a group of several record labels, including Capitol, Def Jam, Island, Republic, and Interscope/Geffen/A&M.

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1989–1996	1996–1997	1997–present

MCA Music Entertainment Group

1989–1996

Universal Records

1996–1997

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It changed its name to Universal Records, following MCA's sale of Matsushita Electric, under the brands of Panasonic, National and Technics. The logo was adopted from Universal Pictures, the motion picture counterpart.

Universal Music Group

1997–present

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Universal Music Group

Owners: Tencent (20%) | Vincent Bolloré (18%) | Pershing Square Holdings (10%) | Vivendi (10%)

Capitol Music Group
Astralwerks | Blue Note Records | Capitol Records | Caroline Records | G-Unit Records | Harvest Records | Motown | Priority Records | Virgin Music Label and Artist Services (Fontana Records | Relativity Music Group) | Virgin Records

Capitol Christian Music Group
Capitol Christian Distribution | Capitol CMG Group (Credential Recordings | ForeFront Records | Motown Gospel | Sparrow Records | Worship Together) | EMI CMG Publishing (SoulStride Records) | Hillsong Music Australia | sixstepsrecords

Interscope Geffen A&M Records
Geffen Records | Interscope Records

Def Jam Recordings
Disturbing tha Peace | GOOD Music

Republic Records
American Recordings | Aware Records | Big Machine Records | Brushfire Records | Casablanca Records | Cash Money Records | Federal Films | Lava Records | XO | Young Money Entertainment

Universal Music Enterprises
Chronicles | Hip-O Records | UM3 | Universal Music Latin Entertainment | Universal Music Publishing Group (Universal Production Music | Killer Tracks | FirstCom Music | Koka Media | Kosinus | Focus Music | Paris Music)

Universal Music Group Nashville
MCA Nashville | Mercury Nashville | Capitol Records Nashville | EMI Records Nashville | Lost Highway

Universal Music UK
EMI Records | Polydor Records | Vertigo Records | Universal Music TV

Universal Music Australia
Island Records Australia | Mercury Records Australia | Modular Recordings | Central Station Records | Dew Process | Eleven | Golden Era Records | Liberation Music | Ministry of Sound Australia | Roadshow Music Group | ABC Music

Verve Label Group
Decca Records | GRP Records | Philips Records | Verve Records | Verve Forecast Records

Third-party labels/Other properties
Aftermath Entertainment | Alamo Records | Big Machine Label Group (Big Machine Records | BMLG Records | Nash Icon Records | Valory Music) | Central Station | Concord Music Group | Disney Music Group (Walt Disney Records | Hollywood Records | DMG Nashville | Buena Vista Records) | Dreamville | EarDrummers | Island Records | London Recordings | PolyGram Entertainment | Quality Control Music | Roc Nation | Shady Records | Top Dawg Entertainment | Varèse Sarabande | Vevo | Back Lot Music | YG Entertainment

Former/Defunct
ABC Records | A&M Records | A&M Octone Records | Big Hit Entertainment | Blue Thumb Records | Chrysalis Records | Columbia Graphophone Company | Def Jam South | Deram Records | DGC Records | DreamWorks Records | Dot Records | Dunhill Records | EMI | EMI America Records | Fallout Recordings | Fontana Distribution | Fox Music | Gordy Records | I.R.S. Records | The Island Def Jam Music Group | Island Records Group | Kapp Records | Mau5trap Recordings | MCA | MCA Records | MCA Soundtracks | Mercury Music Group | Mercury Records | MGM Records | Nippon Phonogram | Paramount Records | Phonogram | PolyGram | PolyGram Music Video | Rising Tide Records | Roc-A-Fella Records | Tamla Records | Seagram's | Uni Records | Universal Records | Teen Island Records | Universal Motown Records | Universal Music Distribution | United Artists Records | UMG Soundtracks | Uptown Records | V2 Records | Virgin EMI Records

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Main assets:

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Part of Vivendi

Free-to-air channels:
C8 | CStar | CNews

Premium channels:
Canal+ | Canal+ Cinéma | Canal+ Sport | Canal+ Décalé/Canal+ Sport Week-end | Canal+ Séries | Canal+ Docs | Canal+ Kids | Canal+ Grand Écran
myCanal: Canal+ Premier League | Canal+ Top 14 Rugby | Canal+ Moto GP | Canal+ Formula 1 | Canal+ Ligue 1 | Canal+ Hello | Canal+ Story | Canal+ Outremer

MultiThématiques:
Ciné+
TV: Ciné+ Premier | Ciné+ Frisson | Ciné+ Émotion | Ciné+ Famiz | Ciné+ Club | Ciné+ Classic
myCanal: Ciné+ Horreur | Ciné+ Western | Ciné+ British | Ciné+ de Quartier | Ciné+ Crime | Ciné+ Comédie | Ciné+ Romance | Ciné+ 80's | Ciné+ Asie | Ciné+ Animé | Ciné+ Italie | Ciné+ 90's | Ciné+ en Musique | Ciné+ 70's | Ciné+ Splendid | Ciné+ Bergman | Ciné+ Bollywood | Ciné+ Enquête | Ciné+ À table ! | Ciné+ 60's | Ciné+ Histoire | Ciné+ Deneuve
Planète+: Planète+ A&E | Planète+ Crime+Investigation
Comédie+ | Seasons | Infosport+ | Rugby+ | Foot+ | Golf+ | Télétoon+ | Piwi+ | Polar+ | Clique TV | CStar Hits France | Multisports

Thema:
A+ | Nollywood TV | Nollywood TV Epic | Novelas TV | Ludikids | A+ Kids

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Platforma Canal+

Parent companies: Canal+ Group (51%), TVN (Discovery, Inc.) (32%) and Liberty Global (17%)

Predecessors
Cyfra+ | N | Wizja TV

Canal+ branded channels
Canal+ Premium | Canal+ 1 | Canal+ Film | Canal+ Seriale | Canal+ Family | Canal+ Dokument | Canal+ Kuchnia | Canal+ Sport | Canal+ Sport 2 | Canal+ Sport 3 | Canal+ Sport 4 | Canal+ Domo (Czech Republic and Slovakia | Poland) | Canal+ 4K Ultra HD

Other channels
Ale Kino+ | MiniMini+ | NSport+ | Planete+ | TeleToon+ | Novelas+

Former channels
Canal+ Gol | Hyper+ | nPremium HD | nPremium 2 HD | nPremium 3 HD | nPremium 4 HD | nTalk | Wizja Jeden | Wizja Pogoda | Wizja Sport | Avante

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Part of Canal+ Group

Subsidiary: UPC DTH

Current services:
Austria: HD Austria | Belgium: TV Vlaanderen (Flemish); TéléSAT (French) | Czech Republic and Slovakia: Skylink; freeSAT | Germany: Diveo; M7 | Hungary: Direct One | Netherlands: Canal Digitaal; Online.nl | Romania: Focus Sat

Television channels:
Romania: Focus Sat TV | Hungary: Direct One | Czech Republic and Slovakia: Skylink 7 (HD)

V • T • E Canal+ Myanmar
Part of Canal+ Group Television channels Canal+ Action \| Canal+ Cha Tate \| Canal+ Gita \| Canal+ Ha Ha! \| Canal+ Kyi Lite \| Canal+ Mae Madi \| Canal+ Pu Tu Tue \| Canal+ Sports \| Canal+ Su Sann \| Canal+ Zat Lenn

Other:
StudioCanal (UK | Australia | Germany | Arthaus) | ROK Studios | A+ (Africa) | Canal+ | Canal+ Horizons (Africa) | K+ (Vietnam) (49%) | Platforma Canal+ (51%) | La Chaîne du Père Noël (only for Christmas seasons) | OCS Max (33 %) | OCS City (33 %) | OCS Choc (33 %) | OCS Géants (33%) | Mezzo (50%) | Mezzo Live HD (50%) | MultiChoice (15%) | Olympia TV | Canal+ À la demande | Canal+ Séries (SVOD) | Canal VOD

Former/defunct:
France: TPS (Star | Cinéclub | Cinécomedy | Cinéculte | Cinéfamily | Homecinéma | Cinéstar | Cinétoile | Cinextreme | Foot | Bandiagara | Initiés TV | Météo Express | Multivision | Superfoot | Le TV mail | Des Idées | TPS & Vous | Info Express | TPS HD | Boutiques | Eurêka!) | Canal+ Bleu | Canal+ Jaune | Canal+ Vert | CinéCinéma Info | CinéCinéma Auteur | Planète Juniors | Kiosque | Canal+ 3D | Pink TV (17.52 %) | Canal+ Hi-Tech | Ciné+ Star | Cuisine+ | Jimmy | Sport+ | Maison+ | Planète+ Thalassa | Canalsat Campus Bac | Canal+ Family (France)

International: Canal+ Belgium | Canal+ Netherlands (Canal Digitaal) | Canal+ Nordic | Canal+ Spain (Digital+ | Canal Satélite Digital) | Canal Digital | Premiere | Tele+

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Other assets
Dailymotion | TIM (23.94%) | Gameloft | Banijay (32.9%) | Universal Music Group (10%)

Former/Defunct
Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment | Sikora Entertainment | Vivendi Games (Mobile) | PolyGram | Seagram's | Universal Pictures | NBCUniversal | USA Networks Inc. | Activision | Activision Blizzard | MCA | Sierra Entertainment | Universal Interactive | Nelvana | RedOctane | Infinity Ward | Associated Film Distribution | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment | Thorn EMI Video | Thorn EMI/HBO Video | EMI Television Productions | Almi Pictures Productions | Neversoft | Embassy Film Associates | Treyarch
Telecommunications: GVT | Maroc Telecom | Tele2 (France)

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Services:

Foxmail | Tencent QQ | QQLive | Qzone | Soso | Tencent Maps | Tencent Weibo | WeBank | WeChat | WeiShi | Tencent Kandian

Tencent Games:
WeGame | Riot Games | Supercell (81.4%) | Funcom | Sharkmob | Grinding Gear Games (80%) | Epic Games (40%) | Marvelous (20%) | TiMi Studios | Netmarble | Kakao Games | Ubisoft (5%) | Paradox Interactive (5%) | Miniclip.com (majority stake) | Voodoo (minority stake) | Yager Development (majority stake) | iDreamSky | LuoBu (49%) | Turtle Rock Studios

Music & Entertainment:
Tencent Music Entertainment (QQ Music | Kugou | Kuwo | WeSing) | JOOX | Universal Music Group (20%) | Warner Music Group (1.6%) | Vevo (other) | Tencent Pictures | Tencent Sports | Tencent Video (WeTV) | Iflix | Tencent Comic and Animation | Skydance Media

Former/Defunct:
Activision Blizzard

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