Capital Cities Communications was an American media company best known for its surprise purchase of the much larger ABC in 1985. The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. ... This article is about the year. ...

History

Capital Cities began in the late 1940s when the Hudson Valley Communications Company received a license for WROW-AM in Albany, New York. In October 1953 it opened the Capital District's second television station, WROW-TV on channel 41. In 1957, WROW-TV moved from channel 41 to channel 10 and became WCDA. // Events and trends World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ... Motto: Nickname: Location in Albany County, New York Founded 1614 Incorporated 1686 County Albany County Borough {{{borough}}} Parrish {{{parrish}}} Mayor Gerald D. Jennings Area  - Total  - Water 56. ... Look up October in Wiktionary, the free dictionary October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Capital District (or Capital-Saratoga Area) is an unofficial term used to refer to a four-county area of eastern New York. ...

In the same year, Hudson Valley Communications merged with the owners of WTVD-TV in Durham, North Carolina, and the new company took the name Capital Cities Broadcasting, as both WCDA (now WTEN) and WTVD served the capital regions of their respective states. Capital Cities then began purchasing stations, starting with WPRO-AM-FM-TV in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1959, followed by then WKBW-AM-TV in Buffalo, New York, in 1961. WTVD-TV (ABC11) is a broadcast television station based in Durham, North Carolina. ... Nickname: City of Medicine Motto: Official website: http://www. ... WTEN is the call letters for a television station in Albany, New York. ... Nickname: Beehive of Industry Motto: {{{motto}}} Official website: http://www. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... WWKB (formerly WKBW) is a radio station in Buffalo, New York that operates on an AM frequency of 1520. ... WKBW-TV, 7News is a television station in Buffalo, New York. ... Nickname: City of Good Neighbors Motto: Official website: Buffalo, NY Location Location of Buffalo in New York State Government County Erie County Mayor Byron Brown Geographical characteristics Area 136. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

During the 1960s, Capital Cities' holdings grew with the purchases the WPAT stations in Paterson, New Jersey; and of the Goodwill Stations, which included WJR-AM-FM in Detroit, WJRT-TV in Flint, Michigan, and WSAZ-AM-TV in Huntington, West Virginia, in 1964. To adhere to Federal Communications Commission rules limiting ownership of VHF television stations to five per company, CapCities spun WJRT to Poole Broadcasting, a company owned by former CapCities shareholder John B. Poole. Poole Broadcasting would purchase WPRO-TV (now WPRI) in 1967 when CapCities added KTRK-TV in Houston to its stable in June of that year, and would also buy WTEN from CapCities in 1969. The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... WPAT are two radio stations licensed to Paterson, New Jersey which serves the New York City Metropolitan area on 930am and 93. ... The skyline of Paterson, New Jersey, showing the canyon of the Passaic River in the foreground. ... WJR is a radio station in Detroit, Michigan, United States. ... WDVD is a hot adult contemporary radio station in Detroit, Michigan, broadcasting at 96. ... Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes - this motto was adopted after the disastrous 1805 fire that devastated the city) Nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in Wayne County, Michigan Founded Incorporated July 24, 1701 1815  County Wayne County Mayor... WJRT-TV (ABC 12) is the American Broadcasting Company-owned and operated television station in the Flint-Saginaw-Bay City, Michigan television market. ... Nickname: The Vehicle City, Buick City Motto: Official website: http://www. ... WSAZ-TV is a television station in Huntington, West Virginia. ... Motto: Nickname: {{{nickname}}} Founded Incorporated 1785 1871  County Cabell County Borough {{{borough}}} Parrish {{{parrish}}} Mayor David Felinton Area  - Total  - Water 38. ... The FCCs official seal. ... Very high frequency (VHF) is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz (wavelength 10 m) to 300 MHz (wavelength 1 m). ... WPRI is the local channel 12 and the Rhode Island CBS station. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... KTRK TV is a television station in Houston, Texas, affiliated with the American Broadcasting Company network. ... Houston redirects here. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ...

In 1971, Capital Cities bought WFIL-AM-FM-TV in Philadelphia, WNHC-AM-FM-TV in New Haven, Connecticut and KFRE-AM-FM-TV in Fresno, California from Triangle Publications. Capital Cities would immediately sell the radio stations to new owners, and changed the television stations' calls to WPVI-TV, WTNH-TV, and KFSN-TV respectively. The company also adopted the Action News format, previously started by Triangle, and still seen today at WPVI and KFSN. In 1974, Capital Cities bought WBAP-AM and KSCS-FM in Fort Worth, Texas, along with its purchase of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In 1983 the company made its last purchase with independent station WFTS-TV in Tampa, Florida. 1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Philadelphia is a village located in Jefferson County, New York. ... City nickname: The Elm City Location in the state of Connecticut Founded April 24, 1638 County New Haven County Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... WPVI-TV, 6ABC is the owned-and-operated ABC television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, owned by ABCs parent The Walt Disney Company, with its transmitter in the Roxborough neighborhood (they share a tower with KYW-TV). ... WTNH, NewsChannel8 is New Haven, Connecticut, USAs ABC affiliate owned by LIN Television Corporation. ... KFSN-TV is an ABC owned-and-operated television station in Fresno, California. ... WPVI-TV Action News open, 2005. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... WBAP is an AM radio station in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex following a talk format. ... Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located about 30 miles (50 km) west of Dallas on the West Fork of the Trinity River. ... The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is the major daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... WFTS (ABC Action News) has been the ABC affiliate for Tampa, Florida since May 22, 1994. ... Franklin Street, looking North, Tampa c. ...

Just prior to the 1971 purchase of the Triangle stations, CapCities was one VHF station below the then-FCC limit of five per owner. The acquisition of WPVI and WTNH gave them six, one station over the limit, meaning one of their stations had to be sold once again. WSAZ-TV was spun off by CapCities to Lee Enterprises (a publishing company no longer active in broadcasting, and who also owned KOIN-TV in Portland, Oregon for many years) not long after the Triangle purchase was finalized. Very high frequency (VHF) is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz (wavelength 10 m) to 300 MHz (wavelength 1 m). ... Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE) is a newspaper company based in Davenport, Iowa Lee owns several newspapers including the Corvallis Gazette-Times. ... KOIN (KOIN 6) is the CBS television affiliate serving the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. ... Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon, and county seat of Multnomah County. ...

The ABC Purchase

Capital Cities' purchase of ABC in 1985 stunned the media industry, as ABC was some ten times bigger than Capital Cities was at the time. Some have said that Capital Cities was only able to pull off the deal because it used the profits from WPVI, one of the most profitable stations in the world.

The newly merged company, known as Capital Cities/ABC (or CapCities/ABC), was forced to sell off some stations due to FCC ownership rules. Of the former Capital Cities television stations, it opted to keep Philadelphia, Houston, Durham, and Fresno. WFTS and ABC's owned-and-operated station in Detroit, WXYZ-TV, were divested as a pair to the E.W. Scripps Company. WTNH and WKBW-TV were sold to minority-owned companies. The new company had originally planned to keep WPVI, but FCC rules could have forced a sale of that station because its signal overlapped with that of ABC's New York City flagship station. At the time, the FCC did not allow companies to own two television stations with common coverage areas (known commonly as the "one-to-a-market" or "duopoly" rule). Citing CBS's then ownership of television stations in New York and Philadelphia under grandfathered status, Capital Cities/ABC requested, and recieved, a permanent waiver from the FCC allowing them to keep WPVI. If the request were disallowed, WXYZ would have been retained. In the television industry (especially in North America), an owned and operated station (frequently abbreviated as O&O) is a television station that is owned by the network with which it is associated. ... WXYZ is the ABC affiliate in Detroit, Michigan. ... Scripps Center, the corporate headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. ... WABC-TV, ABC7 is the New York City, USA television station that is owned and operated by ABC, as well as the networks flagship. ... CBS (formerly an acronym for Columbia Broadcasting System) is a major television network and radio broadcaster in the United States. ... WCBS-TV, CBS2 located in New York City, is the flagship TV station of the CBS television network. ... WCAU, NBC10 is the NBC owned and operated television station serving the Philadelphia market, with its transmitter in the Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia. ...

WPVI and KTRK had long been ABC affiliates (in fact, two of ABC's strongest affiliates), while KFSN and WTVD, previously CBS affiliates, switched to ABC in September 1985. 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The new company retained ABC's radio and television combinations in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco, along with WMAL-AM and WRQX-FM in Washington, D.C. and WRIF-FM in Detroit; CapCities' aforementioned television outlets and the Detroit, Providence, and Fort Worth radio stations, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram; and other broadcasting and publishing properties. WABC is the callsign of the American Broadcasting Companys three flagship broadcast stations in New York: WABC AM, 770 kHz WABC-TV, channel 7 (DTV 45) WABC-FM 95. ... KABC is the callsign of the American Broadcasting Companys three flagship broadcast stations in Los Angeles: KABC AM, 790 kHz KABC-TV, channel 7 (DTV 53) KABC-FM 95. ... WLS (Worlds Largest Store) is the callsign two broadcast stations in Chicago: radio station WLS AM 890 TV station WLS-TV 7 (DTV 52) WLS (Weight Loss Surgery) see Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery   This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might... KGO may mean: KGO-AM a radio station brodcasting in the San Francisco Bay Area. ... WMAL is one of the oldest radio stations in Washington, D.C.. It is a news-talk formatted station, broadcasting at AM 630. ... Mix 107. ... Nickname: the District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Official website: http://www. ... WRIF (101. ...

The Walt Disney Company bought Capital Cities/ABC in February 1996, and changed the corporate name back to simply ABC. Alternate meanings: Disney (disambiguation) The Walt Disney Company (also known as Disney Enterprises, Inc. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...