The SDC OmniMedia® Group

The Smith Data Communications Group was started in 1964 with the the name of Solid State Sound Productions in the upper Mojave Desert's Antelope Valley in the small town of Rosamond, California.  It was a very exciting time in the history of the music business. 

The beat was different, the instruments created new sounds and we took advantage of that.  We knew our limitations and our strengths.  As the new music changed, so did the company was renamed to  K.H.Smith Associated Productions and we refocused on the new open market of independent music production. 

As time moved onward, the company also progressed into film (DragonSpade - Aricorn Films-1978-1980; El Pollo Loco - Platinum Sound Films - 1980; Save The Children (1980)  Joey Rubins, Jr. - Platinum Sound Films;) stage musicals, concert promotions, independent record promotions and music videos.  By the end of 1975,  we evolved into Platinum Sound Productions and started several recording labels; SoulNRock, Platinum Sound, Hot Trax, CKS Records and the purchase and rebirth of the legendary blues rock label D-Town Records in 1977. 

By the beginning of 1980, D-Town Records became the flagship of Platinum Sound and we changed our names to reflect the new direction.  In 1979, we purchased the small software development company called Infotronics USA, where we were located in the Taft Building on the Sixth Floor with our only neighbor being the Counsel General of Costa Rica.  The march to corporate glory and ecstasy was on the golden path.  We had our recording studio called KSR - Kenny Smith Recording Studios, then renamed to Platinum Sound Recording Studios.   Infotronics USA's name appealed suited the board of directors and then it became the flagship.  Our first product was a computerized personal checking database called Check-Mate. 

By the end of 1984, as a subcontractor, we had developed a program called Snapper which cleaned up the first Hewlett-Packard's flatbed scanner's optical character recognition system.   Other first's included one of the software database development module's for a little company called America Online in 1985 and several banking programs for the savings and loan industry.   In 1986, Smith Data Communications (SDC) became the parent company and placed all of it's subsidiary labels, trademarks and properties under the SDC Communications banner and started new development of the Musical Instrument Data Interface (MIDI) systems.  Other developments included programming for the Department of Defense's Super Pods for radio jamming and electronic warfare counter-measures.  

In 1992, SDC purchased Sandra C. Joseph InterNetics Software Company which specialized in computer software distribution,  intellectual properties and internet protocols.  SCJoseph's design and implementation of electronic books for the computer which developed and created the first eBooks in 1993.

SDC Wireless in 2003 incorporated the new innovations of Nothing But Air® and help to launch Seattle's Hot Spots, the first city in the the United States to go wireless and created technical manuals and online presentation work books

SDC OmniMedia Returns to the Music

SDC OmniMedia's present roots are back in the music business.  SDC has released the complete history of D-Town Records including seven volumes of Linda Lou Kestin, the internationally renown lyricist that has over 120 songs in the Keristene Music Catalog.  With internet radio, SDC launched KDTN Radio One Network in 1998 with listeners all over the world.  The most requested music is from the late Lee Rogers catalog with Jack The Playboy leading the television and radio play lists.  Other interests include the DVD releases of travel destinations from Memphis to Utah's San Rafael Swell.

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