KOCH INTERNATIONAL (LABEL)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Founded in 1986 by Franz Koch, Koch is the largest independent recording distributor in the U.S. and Canada, and its Koch Entertainment unit is also an important record producer. With headquarters in New York,the company employs more than 200 people and has the largest marketing and sales department of any independent American distributor, with eight regional sales offices and a marketing and sales staff of over 70 music professionals. Headed up by CEO Michael Koch, it incorporates a large roster of strong independent labels, covering the entire spectrum of music and video, including Chandos, Pearl, ASV, Gothic, MD&G, Ondine, as well as their own Koch productions. In 1999, with the purchase of Walter Yetnikoff’s label, Velvel Records, Koch founded a subsidiary, Koch Entertainment, to include all of its web, music publishing, and recording holdings. Koch’s own label focus on classical and jazz music. In 2002, Koch Europe’s independently run recorded music and music publishing operations, founded in 1975, in Austria, were sold to Universal Music International. [Website: https://www.kochint.com./]HOWARD FERSTLERA firm located in St. Paul, Minnesota, manufacturer of a record player combined with a clock and bookcase; this amalgamation sold for $100 in 1916.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.245 | 0.022 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".