"EMKA" redirects here. For the defunct British racing team, see EMKA Racing. For the record company run by the late Pink Floyd manager, see Steve O'Rourke.
EMKA Limited is a company that is owned by Universal Television division of NBCUniversal with the sole function of overseeing the 1929–1949Paramount Pictures sound feature film library, with some exceptions . It was founded in 1958.
Over the years, MCA took in more than a billion dollars in rentals of these supposedly "worthless" films. In 1962, MCA purchased the US branch of Decca Records, then the parent company of Universal Studios, and subsequently divested MCA of the talent agency business. MCA was eventually acquired by Japan-based Matsushita Electric in 1990 and then by Seagram in 1995, renamed as Universal Studios in 1996 which was sold to Vivendi in 2000. In 1997, Universal Television was sold to USA Networks, 5 years later on May 28, 2002, its entertainment assets were sold to Vivendi Universal. In 2004, Vivendi, merged its entertainment division with General Electric's NBC to form NBC Universal. In 2011, Comcast bought 51% of NBC Universal from Vivendi and renamed it NBCUniversal, and in 2013, Comcast bought remaining 49% of NBCUniversal from GE.