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In 1987, Taft, wanting to purchase more network-affiliated television stations, is looking to sell Taft Entertainment Group, the entertainment subsidiary of the Taft Broadcasting company to a different buyer, with estimates cost $300 million, and the group had a record production year in 1986 out of 334 animated half hours and 63 live-action half hour programs, to the three networks, to the ...
In 1987, Taft, wanting to purchase more network-affiliated television stations, is looking to sell Taft Entertainment Group, the entertainment subsidiary of the Taft Broadcasting company to a different buyer, with estimates cost $300 million, and the group had a record production year in 1986 out of 334 animated half hours and 63 live-action half hour programs, to the three networks, to the ...
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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.
The company was originally owned by Taft Broadcasting and in 1984 was purchased for $167.5 million by senior executives and general managers of Taft's Amusement Park Group. [ 2 ] In 1992, the company was sold to Paramount Communications (formerly Gulf+Western, and later acquired by Viacom ), then the parent of Paramount Pictures , which changed the name of the parks by adding "Paramount's" in ...
Taft Broadcasting was a television production company that owned Hanna-Barbera during the entire run of the Superfriends (1973-1985). They also owned Ruby-Spears during the time that the Superman series from 1988 was on CBS. They lost all the rights to both Hanna-Barbera and Ruby-Spear properties to Turner Broadcasting System in 1991. The company finally went defunct in 1999, after sixty years ...
Radio broadcasting companies of the United States. Media companies of the United States. Television channels in the United States by name. Holding companies. Companies established in 1939. Companies disestablished in 1999. Companies based in Cincinnati, Ohio. IHeartMedia, Inc. Companies formerly listed on NASDAQ.
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