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Taft Broadcasting Company (also known as Taft Television and Radio Company, Incorporated) was an American media conglomerate based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company was rooted in the family of William Howard Taft , the 27th President of the United States .
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History. After graduating from the US Naval Academy in 1938 and serving as executive officer aboard a destroyer in the Pacific in WW II, Paul Taft (1915-2000) started a new television station in the coastal city of Galveston, Texas in 1952. This was during television’s infancy, and the CBS-affiliated KGUL was an immediate success.
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Taft Broadcasting was active in some form or another from 1939, when the WKRC radio station was started in its home city of Cincinnati, Ohio, to 1996, when the company (by then having been renamed to Great American Broadcasting, then Citicasters) was acquired by Jacor Communications, which itself was acquired by ClearChannel in 1999. ID (1984-1987)
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Media in category "Taft Broadcasting Company". The following 9 files are in this category, out of 9 total. 1956 wtvn-tv outdoor.JPG 1,128 × 1,600; 683 KB. 1960 Earl Green Front Page News.JPG 1,375 × 1,005; 540 KB. 1977 WTVN - Donna Hanover Earl Green (cropped).JPG 253 × 403; 56 KB.
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The Taft Broadcasting Company, also known as Taft Television and Radio Company, Incorporated, was an American media conglomerate based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company is rooted in the family of William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States. In 1879, William Howard's brother, Charles Phelps Taft, purchased two afternoon newspapers in Cincinnati, The Times and The Cincinnati ...
