In early 2011, abandoned trademarks were registered with the US Department of Commerce by a midwestern businessman, combined with a large collection of the WNEW 1130 AM archive library: old shows, concerts and jingle packs, a new " Metromedia Radio " is now broadcasting on internet radio Live365. com.

In 1986, Kluge sold the Metromedia television stations to the 20th Century Fox film studio, which is now controlled by the News Corporation, for a reported USD $ 4 billion.

1970s logo for WTCN-TV ( now KARE ) in Minneapolis, which included the corporate logo for Metromedia ; this logo was also used by KTTV in Los Angeles

Indeed, the former WNEW-TV, now Fox flagship WNYW, is still headquartered in the former Metromedia ( and before that, DuMont ) Telecenter, now known as the Fox Television Center.

* Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc., now known as AboveNet

He worked at Metromedia owned Channel 11, KTTV ( now owned and operated by Fox ) in Los Angeles from the 1950s to the early 1970s.

As a condition of the 1983 sale Metromedia was forced by the FCC to divest its Chicago radio station, WMET ( 95. 5 FM, now WNUA ), which was sold to Doubleday Broadcasting.

Karmazin presided over New York's WNEW-AM ( now WBBR ) and WNEW ( now WNEW-FM ) for Metromedia when he was approached to run Infinity Broadcasting in 1981.

In the spring of 1983, Gannett sold WLKY and WPTA in Fort Wayne, Indiana ( the two smallest stations in Gannett's television station portfolio at the time ) to Pulitzer Publishing after it purchased WLVI-TV in Boston ( currently owned by Sunbeam Television ) from Field Communications and WTCN-TV ( now KARE ) in Minneapolis from Metromedia.

" Channel 20 became the third independent station in Houston, after KRIV ( then owned by Metromedia ), and Gaylord Broadcasting's KHTV ( channel 39, later KHWB and KHCW and now KIAH ).

Some of these programs were previously distributed outside the United States by Metromedia Producers Corporation, with Sony Pictures Television now owning worldwide rights.

In 1961, Cook sold the radio and television stations to Metromedia, who signed on KMBC-FM ( later KMBR and KLTH, now KZPT ) the next year.

Los Angeles radio stations KLAC and KLAC-FM ( later KMET and now KTWV ), which Metromedia purchased in a separate 1963 transaction, moved there in 1976.

In 1997, MGM bought Orion Pictures Corporation, The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and Motion Picture Corporation of America from Metromedia ( who are best known as the former owners of several TV stations that are now Fox O & O's and for the taping of television programs at Metromedia Square, now Fox Television Center ) As of the present time, MGM Television owns the movies / shows originally handled by Filmways, Inc., Orion Television, American International Television, Heatter-Quigley Productions and Samuel Goldwyn Television, with the main exceptions of The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction -- these were distributed by Viacom Enterprises, and are currently owned by CBS Television Distribution.

In 1984, Metromedia sold KLAC to Capital Cities Communications, which subsequently sold its previous Los Angeles AM station, KZLA ( 1540, now the current KMPC ) to Spanish Broadcasting System.

In fact, " Unidentified Flying Object " and another of the album's cuts, " Electronic Can-Can " eventually became theme music for " Wonderama ," a Metromedia Television children's program of the early 1970s.

Starting with an all-night talk show hosted by Joe Dolan, Metromedia dumped the Top 40 music format and switched to controversy-focused talk radio, based in elaborate new waterfront studios at 66 Jack London Square in the Port of Oakland building.

Eventually Metromedia decided it could make more money by adopting the simpler, less-competitive country music niche that was working for sister station KLAC in Los Angeles.

The KSAN call sign was first used on FM at 94. 9 on May 21, 1968, after the former classical music station KSFR was purchased by Metromedia in October 1966.

Metromedia continued the classical music format for a couple of years, producing a special series of programs honoring conductor Arturo Toscanini during the centennial of his birth in 1967.

They ran a pop music format from the 1950s into the 1960s, similar to other AM Metromedia stations.

In May 1985, News Corporation agreed to pay $ 2. 55 billion to acquire independent television stations in six major U. S. cities from John Kluge's company, Metromedia.

Clarke Ingram, who maintains a memorial website to the failed DuMont Television Network, has suggested that Fox is a revival or at least a linear descendant of DuMont, since Metromedia was spun off from DuMont and Metromedia's television stations formed the nucleus of the Fox network.

From 1986 to 1992, a series of transactions involving WNEW-FM and its sister radio and television stations, resulted in ownership of WNEW-FM passing from Metromedia to Westinghouse Broadcasting ( former sister stations WNEW-TV became WNYW under News Corporation, and WNEW ( AM ) became WBBR under Bloomberg ).

In retaliation for a lawsuit brought by Paul Winchell, who sought the rights to his children's television program, " Winchell-Mahoney Time ", Metromedia management, under orders from Kluge, destroyed the video tapes.

Metromedia ( also often MetroMedia ) was a media company that owned radio and television stations in the United States from 1956 to 1986 and owned Orion Pictures from 1986-1997.

Metromedia also owned a TV production and distribution company called Metromedia Producers Corporation ( MPC ), established in 1968 from Wolper Productions.

Kerkorian soon expanded the company, purchasing Orion Pictures, The Samuel Goldwyn Company and Motion Picture Corporation of America from John Kluge's Metromedia in 1998, and a majority to the pre-1996 PolyGram Filmed Entertainment from its parent Philips, which was in process to sell PolyGram to Seagram.

KQED had inherited the station in 1970 ( as KNEW-TV ) from Metromedia, but found they could not operate it without losing money.

McClatchy acquired then-ABC-affiliate KOVR from Metromedia in 1963.

The same year, the company also acquired the syndication rights of The Merv Griffin Show from Metromedia Producers Corporation.

It owns programming from other production companies, including MTM Enterprises, Metromedia Producers Corporation, Four Star Productions and select programming from New World Communications / Genesis Entertainment and Cannell Entertainment.

Following the collapse of the Metromedia deal Field instead purchased the other half of WFLD from its minority partners.

The mountain became so popular as a site for transmiters that, in 1963, the Metromedia company bought from the Mount Wilson Hotel Company.

Although PBS could be considered a " fourth network ", a viable fourth network would not again become competitive with the Big Three until Fox was founded in 1986 ( from some of the assets / remnants of the DuMont network, which became Metromedia after DuMont folded ).

The Baltimore / DC service, and the rights to the name Cellular One, were sold from Metromedia to Southwestern Bell in 1987.

In 1966, the station was purchased by Metromedia Broadcasting, which changed the call letters to KNEW ( purchased from a Spokane station for $ 75, 000 ) to match its New York station WNEW.

In 1971 general manager Ken Gaines transferred to KNEW from Metromedia station WHK in Cleveland.

Among the companies that were bought or merged with WorldCom were Advanced Communications Corp. ( 1992 ), Metromedia Communication Corp. ( 1993 ), Resurgens Communications Group ( 1993 ), IDB Communications Group, Inc ( 1994 ), Williams Technology Group, Inc. ( 1995 ), and MFS Communications Company ( 1996 ).

Davis later backed out of a deal with Murdoch to purchase John Kluge's Metromedia television stations.

The station shared the WNEW call letters between 1958 and 1986 with former sister AM station WNEW ( 1130 kHz ) and television station WNEW-TV ( channel 5 ), with all being owned by Metromedia.

Orion Classics, minus its founders ( who had moved to Sony Pictures Entertainment and founded Sony Pictures Classics ), continued to acquire popular art-house films, such as Boxing Helena, before Metromedia merged the subsidiary with Samuel Goldwyn Entertainment in 1996.

In 1997, Metromedia sold Orion ( as well as Samuel Goldwyn Entertainment and Motion Picture Corporation of America ) to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with the deal finalized in late 1998.

Following the Fox disposal, Kluge's activities had been carried out through a private venture named Metromedia Company in which he was a partner with Stuart Subotnick.

The Winstons ' version was released as a B-side of the 45 RPM 7-inch vinyl single " Color Him Father " in 1969 on Metromedia ( MMS-117 ), and is currently available on several compilations and on a 12-inch vinyl re-release together with other songs by The Winstons.

The company's headquarters were co-located with WABD in the former DuMont Tele-Centre ( which was later renamed the Metromedia Telecenter ) in New York.

In 1976, Metromedia teamed up with Ogilvy and Mather for a proposed linking of independent TV stations called MetroNet.

Barrett signed them to recording contracts over the next three years with Warner Bros., Metromedia, and Neptune record labels ; the latter of which was owned by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff who would work with group five years later.

Sensing that his time at CBS was ending, and tired of the restrictions imposed by the network, Griffin secretly signed a contract with rival company Metromedia.

The contract with Metromedia would give him a syndicated daytime talk show deal as soon as CBS canceled Griffin's show.

By early 1972, sensing that his time at CBS was ending, and tired of the restrictions imposed by the network, Griffin secretly signed a contract with rival company Metromedia.

The contract with Metromedia would give him a syndication deal as soon as CBS canceled Griffin's show.

The daily syndicated show was produced by Ralph Edwards Productions ( later Ralph Edwards / Stu Billett Productions ), in associated with and distributed by Metromedia Producers Corporation ( 1966 – 1978 ) and Lorimar-Telepictures ( 1987 – 1988 ).

On October 3, 1970 another pilot was shot under the name The Honeymoon Game, hosted by Jim McKrell and produced by Barry in association with Metromedia.

Davis later backed out of a deal with Murdoch to purchase John Kluge's Metromedia television stations.

In 1970 the band had a minor hit single with the song " Mongoose " on Metromedia Records.

The station's call letters were changed on March 7, 1986 to WNYW and it and the other Metromedia stations formed the cornerstone of the Fox network, with WNYW as the flagship station.