Triangle Publications
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Triangle Publications, Inc. was an American media group first based at 400 North Broad Street (The Philadelphia Inquirer Building), Philadelphia, and later at its TV Guide headquarters in Radnor, Pennsylvania. Triangle Publications was a privately-held corporation with the majority of stock owned by Walter Annenberg and his sisters. Publications owned by Triangle included the Daily Racing Form, New York Morning Telegraph, Armstrong Daily, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Seventeen magazine, TV Guide magazine, Good Food magazine, and Official Detective magazine. Broadcast interests included WFIL AM-FM-TV in Philadelphia, WLYH-TV in Lancaster-Lebanon, Pennsylvania, WFBG AM-FM-TV in Altoona-Johnstown Pennsylvania, WNHC AM-FM-TV in New Haven Connecticut, WNBF AM-FM-TV in Binghamton, New York and KFRE AM-FM-TV in Fresno, California. Triangle also owned cable TV operations in various regions including Suburban Cable TV Co. in suburban Philadelphia, Empire State Cable TV Co. in New York and New Haven Cable TV Co. in Connecticut. Triangle also owned ITA Electronics, a broadcasting equipment manufacturer based in Lansdowne, PA, McMurray Printers, a small job press printer in Miami, McMurray Publishing Co., Ltd. in Canada which published the Canadian editions of TV Guide, Triangle Circulation which handled the nationwide distribution of its magazines and those of other publishers, and Educasting, a developer of educational programming.
Triangle Publications was formed by Walter Annenberg from the assets and properties of the Cecelia Corporation, the corporation founded by his father, Moses L. Annenberg, and named for his mother, Sarah "Sadie" Cecelia Annenberg. Among the assets of the corporation at the time were the Daily Racing Form, the Morning Telegraph in New York, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
As a broadcasting company, Triangle Publications entered the industry with the purchase in 1947 of WFIL Radio in Philadelphia from the Lit Brothers and Strawbridge and Clothier department stores. WFIL evolved from Lit Brothers' WLIT and Strawbridge's WFI radio stations which shared time on the same frequency during the early days of commercial radio. Walter Annenberg became interested in WFIL as it was one of the few stations that also had FCC approval to add a television station. Annenberg was granted the license to start WFIL-TV (now WPVI). Triangle also pioneered the concept of facsimile transmission (FAX) of its Philadelphia Inquirer over an FM band as WFIL-FX. This innovative concept was short-lived as receiving equipment was both expensive and sparsely available for the average homeowner. Triangle's WFIL-TV was the first affiliate of the new American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network. While under Triangle Publications, WFIL AM-FM-TV were first broadcasting from the Widener Building in center city Philadelphia. In 1948 Triangle built the first broadcast center specifically design for television at 4645 Market Street in Philadelphia. It was in this facility that the iconic American Bandstand with Dick Clark began. Triangle had hired Dick Clark in 1952 to be an announcer and later DJ on its WFIL-AM radio station. Clark was elevated to the host of WFIL-TV's Bandstand program when the original host, Bob Horn, was arrested for alleged impaired driving in the midst of an anti-drunk driving campaign by Triangle's Philadelphia Inquirer. Triangle Publications expanded its broadcast interest during the 1950s and 1960s to include WNHC AM-FM-TV, WNBF AM-FM-TV, WLYH-TV, WFBG AM-FM-TV and Fresno's KFRE AM-FM-TV. Walter Annenberg's interest and commitment to education was also reflected in Triangle's broadcasting operations with the establishment of various over-the-airwaves educational programs and through its Educasting operation. In January 1964 Triangle moved its WFIL stations along with its broadcasting division operations into an attractive new state-of-the-art facility in suburban Main Line Philadelphia at 4100 City Line Avenue.
Triangle Publications is probably best known for its primary magazine publication, TV Guide. Against the advice of his close advisors, Walter Annenberg purchased various local TV listing magazines (TV List, TV Digest, TeleVision Guide, TV Guide) and merged them into one national weekly publication under the name TV Guide. The magazine provided local listings with feature stories and soon became the largest weekly national publication reaching up to 23 million households at its peak in the 1970s. The 15 cents per copy digest sized publication could be found at every supermarket checkout and generally sold out within a few days. The immediate success of TV Guide required Triangle to move TV Guide's operations in the later 1950s out of a small office on South Broad Street in Philadelphia to a new, sprawling facility at 250 King of Prussia Road in suburban Radnor, Pennsylvania. This new facility housed all aspects of the publication including managerial, marketing, production, photography, editorial and subscription services. The wrap-around color portion of the magazine was printed at Triangle's state-of-the-art roto-gravure plant at 440 North Broad Street in Philadelphia, adjacent to the Philadelphia Inquirer Building. Triangle Publications also maintained TV Guide sales offices in major metropolitan areas throughout the nation.
Another Triangle Publications' success story was Seventeen magazine, a publication started by Annenberg in 1944 featuring fashion tips and advice for teenaged girls. Seventeen published monthly and, like TV Guide, maintained a strong subscription base.
America's horse racing enthusiasts relied heavily on the information and statistics provided in another of Triangle's publications, the Daily Racing Form. This daily publication, established in 1894 by Frank Brunell, started as a tabloid with regional distribution and was purchased by Moses Annenberg in 1922. Triangle merged the regional editions into a single broadsheet in the early 1970s when it moved operations into a new facility in Hightstown, New Jersey. The Daily Racing Form was one of Triangle's most profitable publications. A sister newspaper, The Morning Telegraph, was closed by Triangle during a strike against the popular entertainment and racing publication.
In the early 1970s Triangle launched Good Food, a digest-sized publication featuring recipes and feature stories with average households as the targeted market. The magazine was designed and marketed along the same lines as TV Guide. Publication of the magazine was suspended after approximately 6 months due to minimal interest by consumers.
In 1969 Triangle Publications sold The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News to Knight Newspapers to comply with federal regulations restricting ownership of multiple media outlets within the same market. Triangle began divesting itself of its broadcasting operations with the sale of the WFIL, WNHC and KFRE stations in 1971 followed by the remaining stations in 1972. In 1988 Triangle Publications' remaining assets were sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in one of the largest financial transactions of the time at 2.83 billion dollars.
Timeline
2002 - Walter Annenberg dies on October 1 in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania
at age 94.
Triangle Publications was formed by Walter Annenberg from the assets and properties of the Cecelia Corporation, the corporation founded by his father, Moses L. Annenberg, and named for his mother, Sarah "Sadie" Cecelia Annenberg. Among the assets of the corporation at the time were the Daily Racing Form, the Morning Telegraph in New York, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
As a broadcasting company, Triangle Publications entered the industry with the purchase in 1947 of WFIL Radio in Philadelphia from the Lit Brothers and Strawbridge and Clothier department stores. WFIL evolved from Lit Brothers' WLIT and Strawbridge's WFI radio stations which shared time on the same frequency during the early days of commercial radio. Walter Annenberg became interested in WFIL as it was one of the few stations that also had FCC approval to add a television station. Annenberg was granted the license to start WFIL-TV (now WPVI). Triangle also pioneered the concept of facsimile transmission (FAX) of its Philadelphia Inquirer over an FM band as WFIL-FX. This innovative concept was short-lived as receiving equipment was both expensive and sparsely available for the average homeowner. Triangle's WFIL-TV was the first affiliate of the new American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network. While under Triangle Publications, WFIL AM-FM-TV were first broadcasting from the Widener Building in center city Philadelphia. In 1948 Triangle built the first broadcast center specifically design for television at 4645 Market Street in Philadelphia. It was in this facility that the iconic American Bandstand with Dick Clark began. Triangle had hired Dick Clark in 1952 to be an announcer and later DJ on its WFIL-AM radio station. Clark was elevated to the host of WFIL-TV's Bandstand program when the original host, Bob Horn, was arrested for alleged impaired driving in the midst of an anti-drunk driving campaign by Triangle's Philadelphia Inquirer. Triangle Publications expanded its broadcast interest during the 1950s and 1960s to include WNHC AM-FM-TV, WNBF AM-FM-TV, WLYH-TV, WFBG AM-FM-TV and Fresno's KFRE AM-FM-TV. Walter Annenberg's interest and commitment to education was also reflected in Triangle's broadcasting operations with the establishment of various over-the-airwaves educational programs and through its Educasting operation. In January 1964 Triangle moved its WFIL stations along with its broadcasting division operations into an attractive new state-of-the-art facility in suburban Main Line Philadelphia at 4100 City Line Avenue.
Triangle Publications is probably best known for its primary magazine publication, TV Guide. Against the advice of his close advisors, Walter Annenberg purchased various local TV listing magazines (TV List, TV Digest, TeleVision Guide, TV Guide) and merged them into one national weekly publication under the name TV Guide. The magazine provided local listings with feature stories and soon became the largest weekly national publication reaching up to 23 million households at its peak in the 1970s. The 15 cents per copy digest sized publication could be found at every supermarket checkout and generally sold out within a few days. The immediate success of TV Guide required Triangle to move TV Guide's operations in the later 1950s out of a small office on South Broad Street in Philadelphia to a new, sprawling facility at 250 King of Prussia Road in suburban Radnor, Pennsylvania. This new facility housed all aspects of the publication including managerial, marketing, production, photography, editorial and subscription services. The wrap-around color portion of the magazine was printed at Triangle's state-of-the-art roto-gravure plant at 440 North Broad Street in Philadelphia, adjacent to the Philadelphia Inquirer Building. Triangle Publications also maintained TV Guide sales offices in major metropolitan areas throughout the nation.
Another Triangle Publications' success story was Seventeen magazine, a publication started by Annenberg in 1944 featuring fashion tips and advice for teenaged girls. Seventeen published monthly and, like TV Guide, maintained a strong subscription base.
America's horse racing enthusiasts relied heavily on the information and statistics provided in another of Triangle's publications, the Daily Racing Form. This daily publication, established in 1894 by Frank Brunell, started as a tabloid with regional distribution and was purchased by Moses Annenberg in 1922. Triangle merged the regional editions into a single broadsheet in the early 1970s when it moved operations into a new facility in Hightstown, New Jersey. The Daily Racing Form was one of Triangle's most profitable publications. A sister newspaper, The Morning Telegraph, was closed by Triangle during a strike against the popular entertainment and racing publication.
In the early 1970s Triangle launched Good Food, a digest-sized publication featuring recipes and feature stories with average households as the targeted market. The magazine was designed and marketed along the same lines as TV Guide. Publication of the magazine was suspended after approximately 6 months due to minimal interest by consumers.
In 1969 Triangle Publications sold The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News to Knight Newspapers to comply with federal regulations restricting ownership of multiple media outlets within the same market. Triangle began divesting itself of its broadcasting operations with the sale of the WFIL, WNHC and KFRE stations in 1971 followed by the remaining stations in 1972. In 1988 Triangle Publications' remaining assets were sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in one of the largest financial transactions of the time at 2.83 billion dollars.
Timeline
- 1942 - Upon the passing of Moses AnnenbergMoses AnnenbergMoses "Moe" Louis Annenberg was an American newspaper publisher, who purchased The Philadelphia Inquirer, the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the United States. in 1936. The Inquirer has the sixteenth largest average weekday U.S...
, son Walter AnnenbergWalter AnnenbergWalter Hubert Annenberg was an American publisher, philanthropist, and diplomat.-Early life:Walter Annenberg was born to a Jewish family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on March 13, 1908. He was the son of Sarah and Moses "Moe" Annenberg, who published The Daily Racing Form and purchased The Philadelphia...
assumed operations of The Philadelphia InquirerThe Philadelphia InquirerThe Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area of the United States. The newspaper was founded by John R. Walker and John Norvell in June 1829 as The Pennsylvania Inquirer and is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the...
. - 1944 - Walter Annenberg launches the magazine SeventeenSeventeen (magazine)Seventeen is an American magazine for teenagers. It was first published in September 1944 by Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications. News Corporation bought Triangle in 1988, and sold Seventeen to K-III Communications in 1991. Primedia sold the magazine to Hearst in 2003. It is still in the...
. - 1947 - The Philadelphia Record files for bankruptcy; The Philadelphia Inquirer becomes Philadelphia's only major daily morning newspaper. Annenberg also purchases the NBC's affiliate WFILWFILWFIL is a radio station and a former television station serving the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its transmitter is located in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania....
radio from Strawbridge and Clothier and Lit BrothersLit BrothersLit Brothers was a moderate priced department store based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Samuel and Jacob Lit opened the first store at Eight and Market Streets in 1893....
. With these two properties, Annenberg forms the media group Triangle Publications. Triangle launches WFIL-TV in Philadelphia on September 13. - 1948 - Annenberg expands the Inquirer Building with a new structure that houses new roto-gravure printing presses. Triangle produced some of the finest color printing in the industry from these state-of-the-art presses.
- 1953 - Annenberg launches TV GuideTV GuideTV Guide is a weekly American magazine with listings of TV shows.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews and crossword puzzles...
as a national publication by combining several regional television listing publications such as TV List, TV Digest and TV Guide. - 1953 - Triangle's WFIL-TV in Philadelphia launches Bandstand as a local teen dance show weekday afternoons with the popular Bob Horn as host.
- 1956 - WFIL Radio's Dick Clark replaced Bob Horn as host of Bandstand.
- 1957 - WFIL's Dick Clark takes Bandstand national over ABC renaming it American Bandstand. The show continued to be broadcast daily out of Triangle's WFIL-TV studios at 46th and Market Streets in Philadelphia until January, 1964.
- 1957 - Annenberg purchases Philadelphia Daily NewsPhiladelphia Daily NewsThe Philadelphia Daily News is a tabloid newspaper that serves Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The newspaper is owned by Philadelphia Media Holdings which also owns Philadelphia's other major newspaper The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Daily News began publishing on March 31, 1925, under...
and combines the Daily News ' facilities with The Inquirers. - 1959 - Triangle Publications acquires the following KFRE stations in Fresno, CaliforniaFresno, CaliforniaFresno is a city in central California, United States, the county seat of Fresno County. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 510,365, making it the fifth largest city in California, the largest inland city in California, and the 34th largest in the nation...
: KARM-AM, KFRE-AM and KFRE-TV. - 1964 - Triangle Publications moves WFIL AM-FM-TV along with the Radio and Television Division operations into a new state-of-the-art circular broadcast facility at 4100 City Line Avenue in Philadelphia across from rival WCAU AM-FM-TV.
- 1966 - Triangle's WFIL-AM in Philadelphia launches the Pop Explosion in September catapulting the Top 40 station into first place over Philadelphia's long-standing Top 40 station WIBG, Wibbage.
- 1968 - The Federal Communications CommissionFederal Communications CommissionThe Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
(FCC) bars companies from owning newspapers and broadcast outlets in the same marketConcentration of media ownershipConcentration of media ownership refers to a process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media...
(the "one to a market" rule). However, the FCC "grandfathersGrandfather clauseGrandfather clause is a legal term used to describe a situation in which an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations, while a new rule will apply to all future situations. It is often used as a verb: to grandfather means to grant such an exemption...
" several existing newspaper and broadcasting situations in several markets. Triangle approaches the FCC for permission to grandfather its combination of the Inquirer, the Daily News and WFIL-AM-FM-TV, but is denied. - 1969 - As a result of the "one to a market" rule, Triangle sells the Inquirer and Daily News to Knight (later Knight-Ridder) Newspapers.
- 1970 - Triangle's WFIL-TV6 launches the Action News format which has been copied by television stations nationwide. TV6 in Philadelphia, now WPVI 6abc, has continually remained in first place since launching the format, still in use today.
- 1971 - Triangle shuts down The New York Morning Telegraph during a strike merging it into the Daily Racing Form out of a new state-of-the-art printing facility in Hightstown, New Jersey.
- 1971 - The FCC forces Triangle to sell off its broadcasting properties due to protests from then-Pennsylvania Governor Milton ShappMilton ShappMilton Jerrold Shapp was the 40th Governor of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania from 1971 to 1979 and was the first Jewish governor of Pennsylvania.- Early life :...
. Shapp complained that Triangle had used its three Pennsylvania television stations—WFIL-TV, WLYH-TVWLYH-TVWLYH-TV is the CW-affiliated television station for South Central Pennsylvania licensed to Lancaster. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 23 from a transmitter on Butler Road in South Londonderry Township's Timber Hills section. The station can also be seen on Comcast...
in LebanonLebanon, PennsylvaniaLebanon, formerly known as Steitztown, is a city in and the county seat of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 25,477 at the 2010 census, a 4.2% increase from the 2000 count of 24,461...
and WFBG-TV (now WTAJ-TVWTAJ-TVWTAJ-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Allegheny area of Pennsylvania that is licensed to Altoona, Pennsylvania. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 32. It is owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group...
) in AltoonaAltoona, Pennsylvania-History:A major railroad town, Altoona was founded by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1849 as the site for a shop complex. Altoona was incorporated as a borough on February 6, 1854, and as a city under legislation approved on April 3, 1867, and February 8, 1868...
—in a smear campaign against him. The WFIL stations, along with radio and television outlets in New Haven, ConnecticutNew Haven, ConnecticutNew Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and...
and Fresno, CaliforniaFresno, CaliforniaFresno is a city in central California, United States, the county seat of Fresno County. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 510,365, making it the fifth largest city in California, the largest inland city in California, and the 34th largest in the nation...
, are sold to Capital Cities CommunicationsCapital Cities CommunicationsCapital Cities redirects here. For the article about the seat of a government, see Capital .Capital Cities Communications was an American media company best known for its surprise purchase of the much larger American Broadcasting Company in 1985...
. Capital Cities retains the television outlets and spins-off the radio stations to various interests. - 1972 - Triangle sells the remaining broadcasting stations WFBG AM-FM-TV in Altoona, PA, WLYH-TV in Lancaster-Lebanon, PA and WNBF AM-FM-TV in Binghamton, NY. The television stations were sold to a team led by George Koehler, former General Manager of WFIL- AM-FM-TV when owned by Triangle.
- 1988 - News CorporationNews CorporationNews Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...
purchases the remaining assets of Triangle Publications including TV Guide Magazine, Seventeen Magazine, The Daily Racing Form, and Good Food Magazine.
2002 - Walter Annenberg dies on October 1 in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania is a suburban community located outside of Philadelphia in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania and Haverford Township, Pennsylvania, United States. Wynnewood was named in 1691 for Dr. Thomas Wynne, William Penn's physician and the first Speaker of the Pennsylvania General...
at age 94.
Periodicals
- Daily Racing FormDaily Racing FormThe Daily Racing Form is a tabloid newspaper founded in 1894 in Chicago, Illinois by Frank Brunell. The paper publishes the past performances of race horses as a statistical service for bettors on horse racing in the United States....
- SeventeenSeventeen (magazine)Seventeen is an American magazine for teenagers. It was first published in September 1944 by Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications. News Corporation bought Triangle in 1988, and sold Seventeen to K-III Communications in 1991. Primedia sold the magazine to Hearst in 2003. It is still in the...
- TV GuideTV GuideTV Guide is a weekly American magazine with listings of TV shows.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews and crossword puzzles...
Television stations
| City of license City of license A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator.... /Market |
Station | Channel TV Virtual channel In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels.... (RF Digital terrestrial television Digital terrestrial television is the technological evolution of broadcast television and advance from analog television, which broadcasts land-based signals... ) |
Years owned | Current affiliation and ownership |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altoona Altoona, Pennsylvania -History:A major railroad town, Altoona was founded by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1849 as the site for a shop complex. Altoona was incorporated as a borough on February 6, 1854, and as a city under legislation approved on April 3, 1867, and February 8, 1868... - Johnstown, PA Johnstown, Pennsylvania Johnstown is a city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States, west-southwest of Altoona, Pennsylvania and east of Pittsburgh. The population was 20,978 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Cambria County... |
WFBG-TV (now WTAJ-TV WTAJ-TV WTAJ-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Allegheny area of Pennsylvania that is licensed to Altoona, Pennsylvania. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 32. It is owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group... ) |
10 (32) | 1967–1972 | CBS CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of... affiliate owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group Nexstar Broadcasting Group Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc., is an entity of broadcast television stations headquartered in Irving, Texas. The company consists of 50 television stations across the U.S., ranging from market sizes 9 to 201 . 43 of the stations are broadcasting at full power, with the other 4 broadcasting at... |
| Binghamton, New York Binghamton, New York Binghamton is a city in the Southern Tier of New York in the United States. It is near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers... |
WNBF-TV (now WBNG-TV WBNG-TV WBNG-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for Upstate New York's Eastern Southern Tier licensed to Binghamton. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 from a transmitter on Ingraham Hill Road southwest of downtown. The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable... ) |
12 (11) | 1955–1972 | CBS affiliate owned by Granite Broadcasting Corporation Granite Broadcasting Corporation Granite Broadcasting Corporation, founded by W. Don Cornwell and Stuart Beck in 1988 , is a broadcasting holding company which owns or operates 14 television stations in the United States, largely centered in the midwest with a cluster in New York state... |
| Fresno, California Fresno, California Fresno is a city in central California, United States, the county seat of Fresno County. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 510,365, making it the fifth largest city in California, the largest inland city in California, and the 34th largest in the nation... |
KFRE-TV (now KFSN-TV KFSN-TV KFSN-TV, UHF channel 30, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Fresno, California. The station's transmitter is located in Meadow Lakes, California. Its signal covers the Central San Joaquin Valley and the mountain... ) |
30 (30) | 1959–1971 | ABC American Broadcasting Company The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948... owned-and-operated (O&O Owned-and-operated station In the broadcasting industry , an owned-and-operated station usually refers to a television station or radio station that is owned by the network with which it is associated... ) |
| Lebanon Lebanon, Pennsylvania Lebanon, formerly known as Steitztown, is a city in and the county seat of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 25,477 at the 2010 census, a 4.2% increase from the 2000 count of 24,461... - Lancaster Lancaster, Pennsylvania Lancaster is a city in the south-central part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the county seat of Lancaster County and one of the older inland cities in the United States, . With a population of 59,322, it ranks eighth in population among Pennsylvania's cities... - Harrisburg Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Harrisburg is the capital of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 49,528, making it the ninth largest city in Pennsylvania... - York, PA York, Pennsylvania York, known as the White Rose City , is a city located in York County, Pennsylvania, United States which is in the South Central region of the state. The population within the city limits was 43,718 at the 2010 census, which was a 7.0% increase from the 2000 count of 40,862... |
WLBR-TV/WLYH-TV WLYH-TV WLYH-TV is the CW-affiliated television station for South Central Pennsylvania licensed to Lancaster. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 23 from a transmitter on Butler Road in South Londonderry Township's Timber Hills section. The station can also be seen on Comcast... |
15 (29) | 1957–1972 | CW The CW Television Network The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB... affiliate owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group (operated through LMA Local marketing agreement In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee... by Newport Television Newport Television Newport Television, LLC is a television station holding company founded by Providence Equity Partners and Sandy DiPasquale in 2007 to acquire the television stations owned by Clear Channel Communications. In September 2007, Newport agreed to sell KFTY and KVOS-TV to LK Station Group LLC for $26.6... ) |
| New Haven New Haven, Connecticut New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and... - Hartford, CT Hartford, Connecticut Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making... |
WNHC-TV (now WTNH-TV) |
8 (10) | 1956-1971 | ABC affiliate owned by LIN Television LIN TV LIN TV Corporation is an American holding company that operates 31 television stations.-History:LIN TV's roots trace back to the founding of its former parent, LIN Broadcasting Corporation, in 1961. LIN Broadcasting was engaged in radio, television, direct marketing, information and learning, music... |
| Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,... |
WFIL-TV (now WPVI-TV WPVI-TV WPVI-TV, channel 6, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. WPVI has its studios located on the border between Philadelphia and Bala Cynwyd, and its transmitter is located in the... ) |
6 (6) | 1947-1971 | ABC owned-and-operated (O&O) |
Radio stations
(a partial listing)| AM Stations | FM Stations |
| Market | Station | Years owned | Current Ownership |
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| Altoona, Pennsylvania Altoona, Pennsylvania -History:A major railroad town, Altoona was founded by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1849 as the site for a shop complex. Altoona was incorporated as a borough on February 6, 1854, and as a city under legislation approved on April 3, 1867, and February 8, 1868... |
WFBG-FM-98.1 (now WFGY WFGY WFGY, known as "Froggy 98 FM", is a Froggy branded Country music formatted radio station in Pennsylvania serving the Altoona, Huntingdon, Bedford, and Lewistown, among other communities in central Pennsylvania. It has a signal that reaches as far west as Blairsville, Pennsylvania, as far south as... ) |
1960–1972 | owned by Forever Broadcasting L.L.C. |
| WFBG WFBG WFBG is a news/talk radio station broadcasting in Altoona, Pennsylvania.-External links:*... -1290 |
1956–1972 | owned by Forever Broadcasting L.L.C. | |
| Binghamton, New York Binghamton, New York Binghamton is a city in the Southern Tier of New York in the United States. It is near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers... |
WNBF-FM-98.1 (now WHWK WHWK WHWK, known on-air as "The Hawk", is a radio station licenced to Binghamton, New York with a country music format. Located at 98.1 FM, the station is owned by Cumulus Media.Current staff include Glenn Pitcher, Pam Scott, John Davisonand Rich Birdsall.... ) |
1956–1972 | owned by Cumulus Media Cumulus Media Cumulus Media, Inc. is the second largest Owner and Operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States, behind Clear Channel Communications, operating 570 stations in 150 markets as of September 16, 2011. The company also owns Cumulus Media Networks... |
| WNBF-1290 | 1955–1972 | owned by Cumulus Media | |
| Fresno, California Fresno, California Fresno is a city in central California, United States, the county seat of Fresno County. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 510,365, making it the fifth largest city in California, the largest inland city in California, and the 34th largest in the nation... |
KFRE-FM-93.7 (now KSKS KSKS KSKS is a commercial radio station located in Fresno, California, broadcasting on 93.7 FM. KSKS airs a country music format branded as "Kiss Country".... ) |
1959–1971 | owned by Peak Broadcasting |
| KFRE-940 (now KYNO KYNO KYNO is a News/Talk radio station broadcasting at 940 kHz in Fresno, California, United States of America.-Station history:KYNO from 1957 and throughout the 1960s and 1970s, was a Top-40 station, and was the #1 "Hooper" rated station in Fresno under the ownership of Eugene Chenault... ) |
1959–1971 | owned by John E. Ostlund | |
| New Haven, Connecticut New Haven, Connecticut New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and... |
WNHC-FM-99.1 (now WPLR WPLR WPLR based out of New Haven, Connecticut, is a rock station owned by Cox Radio.... ) |
1956–1971 | owned by Cox Media Group Cox Media Group Cox Media Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises, is an integrated broadcasting, publishing and digital media company that also includes Valpak and the national advertising rep firms of Cox Reps... |
| WNHC-1340 (now WYBC WYBC (AM) WYBC is a radio station operating on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The station is owned by Yale Broadcasting Company, Inc.; however, it is programmed by Sacred Heart University under a time brokerage agreement... ) |
1956–1971 | owned by Yale Broadcasting Company (operated by Sacred Heart University Sacred Heart University Sacred Heart University is a Roman Catholic university located in suburban Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. Sacred Heart was founded in 1963 by the Most Reverend Walter W. Curtis, Bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Sacred Heart University was the first Catholic university in... under a time brokerage agreement) |
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| Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,... |
WFIL-FM-102.1 (now WIOQ WIOQ WIOQ, known as "Q102", is a CHR/Pop radio station which is broadcast in the Philadelphia area. The station appeals to a generally young demographic. WIOQ is owned by Clear Channel Communications. Its transmitter is located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.-WFIL-FM/Popular 102:The... ) |
1948–1971 | owned by Clear Channel Communications Clear Channel Communications Clear Channel Communications, Inc. is an American media conglomerate company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, and was taken private by Bain Capital LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP in a leveraged buyout in 2008... |
| WFIL WFIL WFIL is a radio station and a former television station serving the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its transmitter is located in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania.... -560 |
1947–1971 | owned by Salem Communications Salem Communications Salem Communications is a U.S. radio broadcaster, Internet content provider, and magazine and book publisher specializing in evangelical Christian and conservative political talk radio. It owns 99 commercial radio stations, 65 of which are in the top 25 markets. Salem is the fifth largest U.S.... |
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