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Thomas S. Murphy, who as chairman and chief executive of Capital Cities Communications stunned Wall Street in 1985 by acquiring the much larger American Broadcasting Company for $3.5 billion, then ...
In 1953, United Paramount Theaters, Inc., owners of the Balaban/Katz Corporation, merged with the American Broadcasting Company to form American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters, Inc. Balaban and ...
Webtoon Entertainment, the media company that spearheaded the mainstream embrace of webcomics, is rebranding and reorganizing ...
A Fortune interview with Disney CEO Bob Iger, featured on the magazine’s cover (seen below) today, makes much of the importance of Iger’s relationship with Steve Jobs. Fortune’s Michal Lev ...
Elizabeth Murphy Burns, president and CEO of family-owned broadcasting and media company Morgan Murphy Media for 43 years, has died. She was 79.
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) signed a $7.75 billion contract in 2014 to broadcast the Olympic games until 2032. It also managed the NCAA through a 2018 deal worth $8.8 billion. Revenue ...
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company ...
Airtime for Nazis, socialists, communists. Politics and broadcasting have been consistently intertwined in American history. As I have found in my own research, the commercial broadcasting ...
1941: Frequency changes for the last time, to 880 kHz. 1946: The American Broadcasting Company comes into existence in the mid-1940s. CBS is uncomfortable with its flagship station bearing the ...