PRT Records

A.k.a. - UK record company previously known as [l=Pye Records]. For the label use .

When the rights to the Pye name expired, the label changed its name to Pye/[l=PRT] (Precision Records & Tapes), around July 1980 and then to PRT only, effective 31 December 1980. PRT Records handled distribution for [l=BBC Records and Tapes], Jive, and former Pye subsidiary [l=Calibre] Records (alternately known as [l=Calibre + Plus!]) as well as the UK distribution of [l=Casablanca Records] (until [l=Phonogram] took over UK distribution around 1981), and [l=Buddah Records].

A PRT Records Limited existed between May 1987 and November 1991.

PRT Records ceased operations in late 1989. The label's back catalog was acquired in 1990 by [l=Castle Communications]. The Pye/PRT catalog is now owned by [l=BMG Rights Management] unit [l=Sanctuary Records]. PRT's classical catalogue of 350 masters was acquired by EMI Records Ltd. in 1990.