Castle Communications: Difference between revisions

| location_city = [[Chessington]], [[SurreyGreater London]]

| parent = [[Alliance Entertainment]] <small>(from 1994)</small><br>[[Sanctuary Records Group]] <small>(from 2000)</small>

Castle Communications was acquired by American music distributor [[Alliance Entertainment]] (which at the time owned [[Concord Records]] and NCircle Entertainment) in 1994<ref>{{cite web | url = http://plc.practicallaw.com/9-100-6761 | title = Castle Communication PLC | access-date = 2011-07-03 | date = 1 September 1994 | publisher = PLC Magazine}}</ref> and then by [[Sanctuary Records Group]]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-retail-stores-not/4636831-1.html | title = U.k.'s Sanctuary Buys Castle Music | access-date = 2011-06-15 | last = Masson | first = Gordon | author2 = Ed Christman | date = 8 April 2000 | work = [[AllBusiness.com]] | publisher = [[Dun & Bradstreet]] | archive-date = 20 November 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071120011502/http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-retail-stores-not/4636831-1.html | url-status = dead }}</ref> in 2000. The label was dissolved when Sanctuary became a [[Universal Music Group]] [[subsidiary]] in 2007.<ref name="guardian-emiapproved">{{cite news|title=Universal's £1.2bn EMI takeover approved – with conditions|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/sep/21/universal-emi-takeover-approved|work=The Guardian|location=London|first=Mark|last=Sweney|date=21 September 2012}}</ref><ref name="latimes">{{cite news|title=Universal Music agrees to sell Sanctuary Records|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-universal-music-agrees-to-sell-sanctuary-records-20130214,0,6072346.story|work=Los Angeles Times|first=Dawn C.|last=Chmielewski|date=14 February 2013}}</ref> Since 2013 Sanctuary has been owned by [[BMG Rights Management]], with global distribution handled by [[WarnerUniversal Music Group]].<ref>{{cite newsweb|url=httphttps://www.billboardmusicbusinessworldwide.com/articles/business/7350142/warnerbmg-musicforms-adaalliance-globalwith-dealuniversal-bmgsets-catalogplan-blinkto-182|author=Ed Christmanmove-physical-distro-to-umgs-commercial-services-division12/|date=2819 AprilOctober 20162023|website=musicbusinessworldwide.com|title=WarnerBMG Music'sFORMS GlobalALLIANCE DealWITH forUNIVERSAL BMG'sMUSIC CatalogGROUP; SetsPLANS UpTO ShowdownMOVE WithPHYSICAL RED|work=BillboardDISTRIBUTION TO UMG'S COMMERCIAL SERVICES DIVISION}}</ref>

Castle Vision was Castle Communications' home video distributor arm. It released many [[VHS|videotapes]], including ''[[Tugs (TV series)|TUGS]]'', ''[[The Raggy Dolls]]'', ''Tumbledown Farm'', ''[[Heathcliff (1984 TV series)|Heathcliff]]'', ''[[Alvin and the Chipmunks (1983 TV series)|Alvin and the Chipmunks]]'', ''[[You've Been Framed!]]'', the ''Men of our Time'' series (documentaries about [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]], [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]], [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi]] and [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]]), a documentary called ''[[Falklands War]]: The Untold Story'', ''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]'', ''[[Harry's Game]]'' as well as movies ''[[Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure]]'' and ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (1989 film)|Phantom of the Opera]]'' which, when released to the rental video market, were duplicated/distributed via [[CBS/Fox Video]], acting as Castle's rental sales agent.