AMI Entertainment Network is a company owned by
the Gores Group
The Gores Group, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in acquiring and partnering with mature and growing businesses. The company was founded in 1987 by its CEO and chairman, Alec Gores, Alec E. Gores.
Headquartered in Beverly Hills, Califor ...
that creates original video content and licenses music, sells
jukebox
A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that plays a user-selected song from a self-contained media library. Traditional jukeboxes contain records, compact discs, or digital files, and allow user ...
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
A player piano is a self-playing piano with a pneumatic or electromechanical mechanism that operates the piano action using perforated paper or metallic rolls. Modern versions use MIDI. The player piano gained popularity as mass-produced home ...
rolls Rolls may refer to:
People
* Charles Rolls (engraver) (1799–1885), engraver
* Charles Rolls (1877–1910), Welsh motoring and aviation pioneer, co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited
* John Etherington Welch Rolls (1807–1870), British jurist and art ...
.
History
Automatic Musical Instrument Co. (AMI) was founded in 1909, making
player piano
A player piano is a self-playing piano with a pneumatic or electromechanical mechanism that operates the piano action using perforated paper or metallic rolls. Modern versions use MIDI. The player piano gained popularity as mass-produced home ...
rolls Rolls may refer to:
People
* Charles Rolls (engraver) (1799–1885), engraver
* Charles Rolls (1877–1910), Welsh motoring and aviation pioneer, co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited
* John Etherington Welch Rolls (1807–1870), British jurist and art ...
.
It remained focused on automated music and
jukebox
A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that plays a user-selected song from a self-contained media library. Traditional jukeboxes contain records, compact discs, or digital files, and allow user ...
es, eventually 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 G ...
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
The Gores Group, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in acquiring and partnering with mature and growing businesses. The company was founded in 1987 by its CEO and chairman, Alec Gores, Alec E. Gores.
Headquartered in Beverly Hills, Califor ...
.
References
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Entertainment companies of the United States