Talk:RKO Radio Pictures/@comment-27097392-20160116114149/@comment-5333487-20170805203937

The studio is gone but their holding company still exists today. This holding company retains the copyrights to all their films, whos distribution rights, but not copyrights were auctioned because the business was bankrupt for a time. Most of the distribution rights were sold to United Artists, who recently bought Associated Artists Productions at the time and finished its contract with Disney to distribute content. Today, Time Warner/Turner/WB owns the rights to distribute the content with permission from RKO. So no, RKO is not defunct. Only the studio is.