AMI Entertainment Network is a company owned by
the Gores Group that creates original video content and licenses music, sells
jukebox hardware, and offers music video services and Tap TV narrowcast television channels.
Its history dates to 1909, when the Automatic Musical Instrument Co., began producing
player piano rolls
Roll or Rolls may refer to:
Movement about the longitudinal axis
* Roll angle (or roll rotation), one of the 3 angular degrees of freedom of any stiff body (for example a vehicle), describing motion about the longitudinal axis
** Roll (aviation), ...
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History
Automatic Musical Instrument Co. (AMI) was founded in 1909, making
player piano rolls
Roll or Rolls may refer to:
Movement about the longitudinal axis
* Roll angle (or roll rotation), one of the 3 angular degrees of freedom of any stiff body (for example a vehicle), describing motion about the longitudinal axis
** Roll (aviation), ...
.
It remained focused on automated music and
jukeboxes, eventually becoming the releasing the first digital jukebox with licensed content.
In 2002, the
Harbour Group
The Harbour Group, LLC is a Washington D.C. lobbying and public relations firm.
History
Harbour Group was founded in 2001 by former Clinton administration senior advisor for policy and communications Joel Johnson, who left in 2005 to join the ...
acquired Merit Industries, makers of Megatouch bartop gaming devices.
This division was combined with jukebox maker Rowe International—after it was acquired in 2003— to become AMI Entertainment Network, an Internet-based digital content segment,
in 2004.
Megatouch, LLC was spun into its own entity in 2013 and closed in 2014.
At the time, AMI was described as creating original video content and licenses music, selling jukebox hardware, and offering music video services and Tap TV. narrowcast television channels.
It acquired NSM Music Group in 2017.
In 2017, AMI was acquired by
the Gores Group.
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Entertainment companies of the United States