Taft Broadcasting Company (also known as Taft Television and Radio Company, Incorporated) was an American media conglomerate based in Cincinnati, Ohio...
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sideline reporter on Fox broadcasts. Her broadcasting career began with the Fox Sports North (FSN) regional affiliate. Taft is also a pit reporter for BattleBots...
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California Taft, Florida Taft, Kentucky Taft, Louisiana Taft, Minnesota Taft, Missouri Taft, Montana Taft, Oklahoma Taft, Oregon Taft, Tennessee Taft, Texas...
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Hanna-Barbera (category Taft Broadcasting)
syndication. Taft Broadcasting acquired Hanna-Barbera in 1966 and retained ownership until 1991. It was in this year when Turner Broadcasting System acquired...
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WTXF-TV (category Taft Broadcasting)
UHF outlets that year, broadcasting as an independent station focusing on community and sports programming. Taft Broadcasting purchased channel 29 in...
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operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, the park was built by Taft Broadcasting and opened in 1972. It was part of a larger effort to move and expand...
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WKRC-TV (category Taft Broadcasting)
Cincinnati Post and WCPO-AM-FM-TV. The Tafts' broadcasting interests were then reorganized as Taft Broadcasting, with WKRC-AM-FM-TV as the flagship stations...
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WSYX (category Taft Broadcasting)
channel 6's call sign. Radio Cincinnati would later become the Taft Broadcasting Company, and Taft would launch a second radio station in Columbus, WTVN-FM...
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Worldvision Enterprises (redirect from Taft H-B Program Sales)
ownership of Taft Broadcasting, which acquired the company in 1979. The sale was first announced in November 1978. As a result of Taft's purchase of Worldvision...
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WDCA (category Taft Broadcasting)
children's programming. After being owned by Taft Broadcasting from 1979 to 1987, WDCA and four other Taft-owned independent stations were sold to TVX...
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to merge with Taft Broadcasting in early 1975. Taft originally ran the park through Family Leisure Centers, a joint venture between Taft and Top Value...
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Capital Partners. "Taft Broadcasting acquires QM Productions (Page 1)". The Los Angeles Times. February 1979. p. 55. "Taft Broadcasting acquires QM Productions...
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Scooby-Doo, The Smurfs, and Yogi Bear. In 1967, Hanna-Barbera was sold to Taft Broadcasting for $12 million, but Hanna and Barbera remained heads of the company...
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municipality within the Greater Toronto Area. Opened in 1981 by the Taft Broadcasting Company and the Great-West Life Assurance Company, it was the first...
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sold to Taft Broadcasting for $12 million, but Hanna and Barbera remained heads of the company. In 1991, the studio was sold to Turner Broadcasting System...
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WKYT-TV (category Taft Broadcasting)
sold to what became Taft Broadcasting and becoming WKYT. Taft switched all of its stations to ABC affiliation in 1961, but after Taft shed WKYT-TV to Kentucky...
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WFOR-TV (category Taft Broadcasting)
under General Cinema Corporation and Taft Broadcasting ownership and featured a nightly 10 p.m. newscast. Taft's 1987 sale of WCIX and five other stations...
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was produced by Hanna-Barbera, then a division of Cincinnati-based Taft Broadcasting. Al Gmuer, a key background artist at Hanna-Barbera, designed a building...
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Sunn Classic Pictures (redirect from Taft International Pictures)
notable for family films and documentaries, and was purchased by Taft Broadcasting in 1980. Sunn Classic was located in Park City, Utah, with offices...
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KTXH (category Taft Broadcasting)
when it sold its entire stations group for $755 million to Taft Broadcasting in 1985. Taft doubled the size of the KTXH facility to include a second studio...
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Endemol Australia (redirect from Taft & Hardie Company)
Hardie Industries and Hanna-Barbera corporate parent Taft Broadcasting reorganised the division as Taft-Hardie Group Pty Ltd. In 1984, the company established...
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WNEP-TV (category Taft Broadcasting)
Transcontinent exited broadcasting in 1964 and sold several of its stations, including WNEP-TV, to Taft Broadcasting. When Taft purchased Philadelphia...
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Fantastic Four 1967–68 Hanna-Barbera Productions / Marvel Comics Group Taft Broadcasting 20 Spider-Man 1967–70 Grantray-Lawrence Animation / Krantz Films /...
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was originally formed in 1970 by Jack E. Rhodes as a subsidiary of Taft Broadcasting Company in New York City, to distribute Hanna-Barbera cartoons. In...
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syndication firm Rhodes Productions after former parent Taft Broadcasting renamed the original company to Taft, H-B Program Sales two weeks earlier. In 1976, Richard...
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WKRC (AM) (category Taft Broadcasting)
was owned by the Taft family. This purchase was the genesis of Taft Broadcasting, with WKRC as its flagship station. In 1947, Taft signed on an FM station...
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Electra (teletext) (category Taft Broadcasting)
Zenith. It was owned, operated and maintained by Cincinnati-based Taft Broadcasting (specifically at their flagship station, WKRC-TV, which had debuted...
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Ruby-Spears (category Taft Broadcasting)
subsidiary of Filmways (later Orion Pictures) and sold in late 1981 to Taft Broadcasting, becoming a sister company to Hanna-Barbera, while Ruby and Spears...
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KTXA (category Taft Broadcasting)
sold its entire stations group for $755 million to Taft Broadcasting in 1985. At the same time Taft acquired a Fort Worth television station, it attracted...
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Entertainment acquired the group in a management-led LBO from the Taft Broadcasting Company, which had built Kings Island in Cincinnati using rides that...
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