• RKO General Inc. (previously General Teleradio Inc. and RKO Teleradio Pictures Inc.) was an American broadcasting company that, from 1952 through 1991...
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    RKO Radio Pictures Inc., commonly known as RKO Pictures or simply RKO, was an American film production and distribution company, one of the "Big Five"...
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  • RKO Pictures (also known as RKO Productions, Radio Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, and RKO Teleradio Pictures) is an American film production and distribution...
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    first appearance was in the novelization of the 1933 film King Kong from RKO Pictures, with the film premiering a little over two months later. A sequel...
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  • manufacturing (General Tire, Inc.), rubber compounds (DiversiTech General), rocketry and aeronautics (Aerojet), and broadcasting (RKO General). The company's...
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  • RKO refers to RKO Pictures, an American film company. RKO may also refer to: RKO General, holding company for General Tire and Rubber Company up to 1981...
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  • and RKO-General alleging breach of contract, and attempted to develop their own remake of King Kong. In response, De Laurentiis and RKO-General filed...
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  • RKO Forty Acres was a film studio backlot in the United States, owned by RKO Pictures (and later Desilu Productions), located in Culver City, California...
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  • NHL on RKO General relates to a small, syndicated network of stations owned by RKO General which broadcast National Hockey League games. In the United...
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  • WEPN-FM (category RKO General)
    as an FM simulcast of WOR. At that time, the station—by then owned by RKO General—flipped to one of New York's first free-form radio formats, focusing...
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    1957; movie business dissolved in 1959 and RKO Teleradio renamed RKO General; RKO General establishes RKO Pictures as production subsidiary in 1981) GenCorp...
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    General Tire & Rubber bought the RKO Radio Pictures movie studio. All of its media and entertainment holdings were organized into the RKO General division...
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  • WHBQ-TV (category RKO General)
    was merged into General Teleradio; General Tire's broadcasting and film divisions were later renamed RKO General in 1957. RKO General was under nearly...
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    KCAL-TV (category RKO General)
    1955, General Tire purchased RKO Radio Pictures to give the company's television station group access to RKO's film library. In 1959, General Tire's...
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  • motion picture studio Radio Keith Orpheum (RKO Pictures).[citation needed] After the establishment of RKO, motion pictures became the primary focus of...
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  • WBZ-FM (category RKO General)
    General Tire's other broadcast holdings, came under the General Teleradio banner in 1952; the division became RKO Teleradio Pictures in 1955 and RKO General...
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    Floyd Odlum (category RKO General)
    in the United States. Besides Atlas Corporation, he had a major stake in RKO Studios, Convair, Northeast Airlines, and Bonwit Teller, among other businesses...
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  • The RKO Radio Network was commercial radio network that operated in the USA from 1979 to 1985. The network was a subsidiary of the RKO General broadcasting...
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    WNAC-TV (Boston) (category RKO General)
    located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The station was owned by RKO General. Originally established in 1948, WNAC-TV signed off for the final time...
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  • KHJ (AM) (category RKO General)
    stations. In 1949, the broadcasting company, including KHJ, merged with RKO General. On December 18, 1934, KHJ was one of four stations granted permission...
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    Dore Schary (category RKO General)
    and commercial successes. Schary's Vanguard films were released through RKO, which offered him the job as head of the production. Although he still had...
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    Estudios Churubusco (category RKO General)
    of Mexico City. It was inaugurated in 1945 after a 1943 agreement between RKO and Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta (of Televisa). In 1950, it was acquired by...
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    characters were in the public domain in Universal City Studios, Inc. v. RKO General, Inc. Sweet ruled that Universal had acted in bad faith by threatening...
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    CKLW (category RKO General)
    Broadcasting in 1956, along with RKO General (which had purchased a minority interest in 1954 and had controlled Mutual since 1952). RKO would later increase its...
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    WRKO (category RKO General)
    (1260 AM) (the former WVDA) in 1957. By December 1959, RKO Teleradio adopted the RKO General banner. WNAC-FM changed call letters to WRKO-FM on May 10...
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  • Frontier Airlines (1950–1986) (category RKO General)
    Salt Lake City St. Louis Parent company Goldfield Corp. (1962–1965) RKO General (1965–1985) People Express Airlines (1985–1986) Headquarters Denver,...
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  • executive Barry Mayo who helped launch WRKS and was the first black general manager of RKO General and Emmis Communications. She graduated from Columbia University...
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  • Street in Lima, Ohio, in 1966. The Lima Pepsi-Cola business was sold to RKO General in 1976, but Karl W. Koch repurchased the company's other assets, including...
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    stations it owned in New York and Boston. RKO General attempted to sell the station but found no takers. As a result, RKO donated the station to Faith Center...
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    a radio producer for RKO, and a reporter for local television stations. In 1975, he joined ABC News, where he worked as a general assignment reporter and...
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