Wometco Enterprises (also known simply as Wometco) is an American company headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida; a suburb of Miami. It was once a large...
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Wometco Home Theater (WHT) was an early pay television service in the New York City area that was owned by Miami-based Wometco Enterprises, which owned...
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WTVJ (category Wometco Enterprises)
1949, on channel 4 as Florida's first television station. Owned by Wometco Enterprises, a Miami movie theater operator, the station nearly never launched...
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WLOS (category Wometco Enterprises)
Skyway Broadcasting Corporation, owner of WLOS radio, and owned by Wometco Enterprises from 1958 to 1987; Sinclair has owned it since 1996. Its local news...
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WZZM (category Wometco Enterprises)
into an agreement to sell WZZM-TV to Wometco Enterprises for $14 million in 1976, with WZZM-TV becoming Wometco's fourth television property. The acquisition...
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American businessman, theatre owner, politician, and founder of Wometco Enterprises. Wolfson was born in 1900 in Key West, Florida. He went to school...
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WFUT-DT (category Wometco Enterprises)
following in the New York metropolitan area. After conglomerate Wometco Enterprises reached a deal to become channel 68's majority owner, on March 1...
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Miami Seaquarium (category Wometco Enterprises)
The Miami Seaquarium is a 38-acre (15 ha) oceanarium located on the island of Virginia Key in Biscayne Bay, Miami-Dade County, Florida located near downtown...
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WFTY-DT (category Wometco Enterprises)
then entered into a joint venture with Wometco Enterprises, majority owner of channel 68 and operator of the Wometco Home Theater (WHT) STV service that...
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KVOS-TV (category Wometco Enterprises)
of owning KVOS-TV, in 1962 Jones sold the station to Miami-based Wometco Enterprises. Prior to the advent of Canadian content regulations in the early...
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Mitchell Wolfson Jr. (category Wometco Enterprises)
1906– May 9, 1980) and Mitchell Wolfson (1900–1983), the founder of Wometco Enterprises in 1925 and the first Jewish mayor of Miami Beach in 1943. His older...
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Crosby Productions Cinerama Releasing Corporation Fuqua Industries Wometco Enterprises Distributed by American International Pictures Release date July 2...
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& Hyde Accepts Bid The New York Times, June 12, 1984. Wayne, Leslie. "Wometco Agrees To Buyout", The New York Times. September 22, 1983. Dodson, Steve...
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WMTV as Bartell's only television property, Wometco Enterprises filed in 1957 to buy WMTV for $350,000. Wometco owned the station less than a year before...
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Channel American Spectacor June 29, 1989 Launched in 1974. Wometco Home Theater Wometco Enterprises 1986 Subscription service operating offering movies, live...
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Historic Places June 13, 2016. The Wolfson-Meyer Theater Company, later Wometco Enterprises, owned the theater since its construction in 1930 until 1979, when...
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WTLV (category Wometco Enterprises)
stakeholder in the firm. Also represented was Miami movie theater operator Wometco Enterprises and its chairman, Mitchell Wolfson. Florida-Georgia and two other...
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WKSF (category Wometco Enterprises)
others for breach of contract. On March 1, 1958, Wolfson's company, Wometco Enterprises, announced it had reached a deal to buy Britt's stock in Skyway Broadcasting...
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Louis Wolfson II (category Wometco Enterprises)
Meyer (1906–1980) and Mitchell Wolfson (1900–1983), who founded Wometco Enterprises in 1925 and was the first Jewish mayor of Miami Beach in 1943. Louis...
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only station to operate in Miami for nearly four years. Owned by Wometco Enterprises, a movie theater chain with diversified interests headed by Mitchell...
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and negotiations with CBS and KIRO-TV, KVOS (at the time owned by Wometco Enterprises) began to phase out most CBS programming by 1980. At age 29 in 1979...
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Productions / Cinerama Releasing Corporation / Fuqua Industries / Wometco Enterprises Earl Bellamy (director); Howard B. Kreitsek (screenplay); Bo Svenson...
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WKJV (AM) (category Wometco Enterprises)
WKJV (1380 kHz) is a listener supported Christian radio station licensed in Asheville, North Carolina. It serves Buncombe, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell...
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operator together with the company's chairman Joseph R. Hyde III. Wometco Enterprises, 1984 KKR completed the first billion-dollar buyout transaction to...
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Cobb Theatres (category Wometco Enterprises)
1940s, and buying out General Cinema's West Central Florida theatres and Wometco Theatres in the 1990s before being bought by Regal Cinemas in 1997 and...
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described elsewhere in this article) include: Malone & Hyde (1984), Wometco Enterprises (1984), Beatrice Companies (1985), Sterling Jewelers (1985), Revco...
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of a multi-year dispute between NBC, CBS, and Sunbeam Television. Wometco Enterprises, parent of CBS affiliate WTVJ, was taken private in a 1983 leveraged...
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change when the founder and longtime owner of WTVJ, Wometco Enterprises, Inc., sold off the Wometco empire following the death of founder and President...
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Disaffiliated from CBS as a result of NBC's purchase of that station from Wometco Enterprises in mid-September 1987; CBS purchased Fox affiliate WCIX (now WFOR-TV)...
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Florida. Robdendon Corporation opened this movie theatre to the public as a Wometco first-run-house in December 1926. On October 3, 1931, after extensive remodeling...
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