WEA Manufacturing Inc.

History

WEA Manufacturing Inc. was the record, cassette and CD manufacturing arm of Warner Music Group. The arm was formed sometime in 1978 and exclusively provided audio duplication initially, but over a decade later, the arm began providing videocassette duplication in addition to audio duplication. The arm also duplicated a few LaserDiscs in the 1990s. In October 2003, the arm was sold to Cinram.

List of Home Media Customers

• Children's Book of the Month Club
• Eastwest Records America (1996)
• Martha Stewart Living (1994)
• Morningstar (1993)
• Playboy Video
• Warner Home Video (some copies of Grumpier Old Men, Twister, Eraser, and A Time to Kill, and perhaps some other tapes)
• Warner Music Group
  • A*Vision Entertainment/WarnerVision Entertainment
    • BodyVision
    • KidVision
    • NightVision
  • Rhino Home Video
  • Warner Music Enterprises
    • Country Video Monthly
    • Rock Video Monthly
  • Warner Reprise Video

List of Audio Customers

• Disneyland/Vista Records (1979-198?)
• Warner Music Group
  • Atlantic Records
  • Warner Bros. Records
  • Rhino Entertainment Company
    • Kid Rhino

How to Tell for Home Media Releases

• Tapes from this duplicator had a barcode sticker on the bottom middle side.

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  An example of what the barcode sticker on tapes from this duplicator looked like.

• Tapes from this duplicator do not have anything in the vertical blanking interval.

Locations

• Burbank, California
• New York, New York
• Olyphant, Pennsylvania