RKO TOWER

a reference to the symbol of RKO Radio Pictures, a major American motion picture studio of the 1930s and 1940s. RKO stands for "Radio-Kieth- Orpheum," and the company was started in 1928 as a joint enterprise of the Radio Corporation of America and the Keith-Albee-Opheum theater and cinema circuit (a group or chain of theatres, cinemas, etc., owned by a single person or company). The symbol adopted by RKO was a broadcasting tower emitting waves which looked like jagged streaks of lightning in all directions. The company ceased production in the 1950s.