MCA Publishing LLC

MCA Publishing LLC is a talent agency that is currently a subsidiary of Langile Holdings LLC. Apart from being a talent agency, it also specializes in music publishing, as well as media including newspapers and magazines. It was created as a spin-off of the original MCA Inc. after it went out of business the prior year, though this brand is not affiliated with it in any way except in name.

Despite Universal Music Group keeping the MCA name, the company's name came from the original MCA from 1924 and the spin-off company still uses the name even though the MCA name belongs to UMG, which in turn is majority owned by Vivendi with a 10% stake owned by Tencent. MCA Publishing continues to use its predecessor's logo, which has been used since the company was formed in 1997 and the logo is still in use as of 2021.

Unlike the original MCA Inc., MCA Publishing does not mainly pertain to entertainment, nor does it focus on the use of record labels as the MCA trademark was taken by UMG after the original MCA Inc. dissolved following its name change to Universal Studios Inc. by its parent company at the time. It instead publishes newspapers relating to music and secondarily entertainment, which covers news based on those from The Walt Disney Company, WarnerMedia, ViacomCBS, NBCUniversal, Fox Corporation, Discovery Inc., MGM Holdings, Sony Pictures, ATBW Holdings LLC, and MCA Publishing's parent company Langile Holdings LLC, as well as Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group. These are primarily published under its entertainment and music divisions respectively.

Langile Corporation Era (1997 - 2003)
After hearing about the eventual demise of MCA Inc. in 1996, as well as a need of a music talent agency, Eric Langile III with Warren Langile founded a company that would be an indirect spin-off of the original MCA Inc. that used to be Universal's former parent company and would use the name MCA.

Despite spinning off MCA Inc., Universal Music Group retained the MCA Record label until 2003, the same year as the demise of Langile Corporation that followed years after, and UMG also runs MCA Nashville, a current record label from them and the only UMG label still using the MCA name, but that label is not affiliated with MCA Publishing in any way except in name.

During the initial years in 1997. MCA Publishing functioned as a talent agency, which eventually turned into a music and entertainment magazine. Unlike the original MCA Inc., MCA Publishing LLC's talent agency only works within entities that are owned by the Langile Family excluding ATBW Label Networks. The talent agency still operates just as the original MCA did in its initial years.

Universal Studios was sold to Vivendi in 2001 and UMG was made a separate company in 2004 as most of Universal Studios was sold to G3 to form NBCUniversal. Eric Langile III explained that the reason the second MCA spin-off was formed was to restart its talent agency and music business, as well as its entertainment business.

Langile Mediaworks Division Era (2003 - 2019)
After Langile Corporation split into Langile Mediaworks Division and Langile Consumer Branding on May 30, 2003 amid a potential antitrust lawsuit, MCA Publishing was moved to Langile Mediaworks Corporation and the Langile Mediaworks Byline was added as mandated by Langile Corporation.

Langile Holdings LLC Era (2019 - Present)
After Langile Mediaworks Division segregated its former longtime subsidiary ATBW Label Networks and formed ATBW Holdings LLC on September 17, 2019, MCA Publishing was moved to its current parent Langile Holdings LLC.

Print Publishing
MCA Publishing mainly prints and sells newspapers and magazines usually related to music news, but sometimes entertainment news as well. They also run a promotional magazine which allows readers to subscribe and listen to music from the company.

Music
MCA Publishing also operates