Sony Corporation is the electronics business unit and the parent company of the , which is engaged in business through its four operating components: electronics (AV, IT & communication products, semiconductors, video games, network services and medical business), motion pictures (movies and TV shows), music (record labels and music publishing) and financial services (banking and insurance). These make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world. The group consists of Sony Corporation, Sony Pictures, Sony Mobile, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Music, Sony Financial Holdings and others.

Sony is among the semiconductor sales leaders and as of 2016, the fifth-largest television manufacturer in the world after Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, TCL and Hisense.

The company's current slogan is "BE MOVED". Their former slogans were "make.believe" (20092014), "like.no.other" (20052009), "The One and Only" (19801982) and "It's a Sony" (19822002).

Sony has a weak tie to the Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) keiretsu, the successor to the Mitsui keiretsu.

Sony began in the wake of World War II. In 1946, Masaru Ibuka started an electronics shop in a department store building in Tokyo. The company started with a capital of 190,000 and a total of eight employees. In May 1946, Ibuka was joined by Akio Morita to found a company called "Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo" (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation). The company built Japan's first tape recorder, called the Type-G. In 1958, the company changed its name to "Sony". What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What type of buisness is Sony?
2. What do they lead in with sales?
3. as of when?
4. Are they a large manufactur?
5. of what?
6. where do they rank?
7. how many operating componets do they have?
8. what does this make them?
9. in the US only?
10. Does the buisness have other facets?
11. how many are mentioned?
12. Do they have a slogan?
13. what is it?
14. what was it 1982?
15. Does it have strong ties with SMFG?
16. What does SMFG stand for?
17. and they are?
18. What did the company buikd the first of in Japan?
19. named?
20. when did they change their name?
Answer: 1. electronics
2. semiconductor
3. 2016
4. yes
5. television
6. fifth-largest
7. Four
8. one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies
9. no
10. yes
11. Six
12. yes
13. "BE MOVED"
14. "It's a Sony"
15. no
16. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
17. the successor to the Mitsui keiretsu.
18. tape recorder
19. Type-G
20. 1958

Problem: "Tammy! Come here, please! Mother needs your help in the kitchen." Her father called out to her. Tammy was in her room, getting ready to do her homework. "Yes, Daddy!" she replied. "I'll be right there." She hurried out of her bedroom and down the hallway. She was only nine years old. Her elder sister, Ella, had just moved away to go to a performing arts high school in another city. Her brother, Harry, was in middle school and always got home late. With Ella leaving home, Tammy was expected to do a lot more than she had ever done before, especially now, because her mother was ill. Her father was in the kitchen. "Tammy, I know you usually do your homework right now, but with things being different, we all have to change a little bit. I'll help you and Harry with your homework later on, OK?" Her father had an apron on over his clothes, and he looked kind of funny. He was doing the dishes and he always splashed water all over when he did that. After helping her father with the dishes, Tammy helped set the table. After supper, her father helped her and Harry with their homework, and then they played a board game so that their mother could lie down for a while. The next morning, Tammy got up early on her own because she wanted to help her mother with breakfast. She made orange juice and even put bread in the toaster and got out the butter so that her mother could sleep for a few more minutes. When her mother got up half an hour later, she was very surprised and moved to see the breakfast on the dining table. She gave Tammy a big hug. "Thank you, Tammy. You really are mother's little helper now, aren't you?"
1. Who was needed in the kitchen?
2. Why?
3. Who were her siblings?
4. Where was her sister?
5. Why did she need to help?
6. What did she do?
7. what did they do afterwards?
8. And after that?
9. Where was Harry?
10. What did Tammy want to do?
11. What did they play?
12. Who?
13. What did she give her?
14. What did they eat?
Answer: 1. Tammy
2. Her mom needed her help
3. Ella and Harry
4. another city
5. her mother was ill
6. helped her dad with the dishes
7. set the table
8. did her homework
9. He was there too
10. help her mother with breakfast.
11. a board game
12. Tammy, Harry and her dad
13. a big hug
14. orange juice and bread

question: Historically, the channel's programming consisted mainly of featured classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library which comprises films from Warner Bros. Pictures (covering films released before 1950) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986). However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its Time Warner sister company, Warner Bros. (which now controls the Turner Entertainment library and its own later films), and occasionally shows more recent films. Turner Classic Movies is a dedicated film channel and is available in United States, United Kingdom, France (TCM Cinema), Spain (TCM Espana), Nordic countries, Middle East and Africa.

In 1986, eight years before the launch of Turner Classic Movies, Ted Turner acquired the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio for $1.5 billion. Concerns over Turner Entertainment's corporate debt load resulted in Turner selling the studio that October back to Kirk Kerkorian, from whom Turner had purchased the studio less than a year before. As part of the deal, Turner Entertainment retained ownership of MGM's library of films released up to May 9, 1986. Turner Broadcasting System was split into two companies; Turner Broadcasting System and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and reincorporated as MGM/UA Communications Co.
1. What television channel is discussed?
2. What does that stand for?
3. How many regions is it available in?
4. What's one of them?
5. Is it called exactly the same thing in each region?
6. Where is it named differently?
7. What does it go by there?
8. What happened in 1994?
9. Who founded the station?
10. Is the station named after him?
11. What other movie outfit did he purchase?
12. Did he buy it for 2 billion?
13. How much did he buy it for?
14. What caused another sale?
15. Who was it sold back to?
16. What was the historical lineup on the station?
17. Are more recent videos ever shown?
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answer:
1. TCM
2. Turner Classic Movies
3. Seven
4. United States
5. no
6. Spain
7. TCM Espana
8. unknown
9. Ted Turner
10. Yes
11. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio
12. No
13. $1.5 billion
14. Concerns over Turner Entertainment's corporate debt load
15. Kirk Kerkorian,
16. featured classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library
17. Yes