UAV Corporation Logo History

“United American Video Corporation / Sterling Entertainment Group Logo History" made by TheMediaCenterStudios2021Productions, 2023/10/01.

United American Video Corporation (also known as "UAV Corporation", "UAV Entertainment", or "United American Video") was founded in 1984. It was the longtime competitor of GoodTimes Entertainment, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Celebrity Home Entertainment, and many other sell-through home video companies.

The company expanded beyond the public domain to include licenses for several major studios, and eventually launched UAV Gold and the UAV Silver lines, as well as Hep Cat Entertainment, Gemstone Entertainment and Ovation Home Video lines. UAV even had a brief tenure in Europe with the UAV Europe line, but it collapsed on the European public domain company crash in the early 1990s.

In 1992, UAV purchased the assets of VidAmerica and created the new Sterling Entertainment Group label, which eventually became the standard by 1998. in 1992 by United American Video Corporation when it purchased several assets of defunct distributor VidAmerica. The Sterling line became UAV's core home video label by 1998, expanding rapidly into DVD releases. It later signed an agreement with DIC Home Entertainment to release home video titles in 2003. In 2006, amid the mid-to-late 2000s public domain DVD crash, it was sold to Allumination FilmWorks.

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