The Outlet Company was a corporation based in Providence, Rhode Island which owned holdings in both retail and broadcasting. The centerpieces of the group was its flagship Providence store (The Outlet) and WJAR radio and television, also in Providence. Nickname: Beehive of Industry, The Renaissance City Location in Rhode Island Coordinates: Country United States State Rhode Island County Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline (D) Area    - City 20. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... WJAR (NBC10) is the NBC affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island and New Bedford, Massachusetts. ...

Retail

The Outlet Company was formed in 1891 when opened brothers Joseph and Leon Samuels opened a department store at 176 Weybosset Street in downtown Providence. Known as The Outlet, it quickly became a Providence landmark to the point of occupying an entire city block and attracting shoppers from all over southern New England. For decades, the store remained strong with its sole flagship location and dominated the field of retail in not only Providence, but Rhode Island as a whole. The states marked in red show New England. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

With the changing field of retail in the mid-20th Century, the company diversified with opening suburban locations as well as buying some existing stores such as Philadelphia-based Phillipsborn and Bedya, the midwestern Hughes & Hatcher chain, and the Edw. Malley Co. department store chain in New Haven, Connecticut. However, the allure of building a broadcasting empire led Outlet to leave the retail business in November 1980, and the eventual shuttering of the flagship Outlet location in 1982. The building was destroyed by fire on October 16, 1986. Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Cradle of Liberty, the City That Loves You Back, the Quaker City, The Birthplace of America Motto: Philadelphia maneto - Let brotherly love continue Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor... This article is about the city in Connecticut. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years). ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Broadcasting

As with many northestern department stores in the 1920s, Outlet entered radio as a means of promoting their products to a wide audience. In 1922, Outlet entered broadcasting with the sign on of WJAR, which in 1923 became the first affiliated station of the NBC "Red" network[1]. In 1949, Outlet entered television broadcasting with the launch of WJAR-TV on channel 11, moving to channel 10 in 1953. WHJJ is an AM Radio station in Providence, Rhode Island broadcasting at 920 AM. It was the Rhode Island affiliate of Air America Radio until 2005 In 2005 and 2006, WHJJ won Associated Press awards for the Massachusetts/Rhode Island area; the 2005 award was for enterprise reporting, while the... It has been suggested that NBC Radio City Studios, NBC Studios be merged into this article or section. ... WJAR (NBC10) is the NBC affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island and New Bedford, Massachusetts. ...

Along with retail, Outlet saw a mass expansion into broadcasting in the 1960s and beyond. After the sale of the retail divisions, the company went into a failed merger attempt with Columbia Pictures before it was sold in 1983 to members of the Rockefeller family. Three years later, the company was sold again to a combination of Outlet executives and venture capitalists that renamed the company to Outlet Communications and began a complete withdrawal from radio followed by a slimming down of their TV stations. In early 1996, Outlet and its three stations (plus control of two others) were sold to NBC; the name lived on as a licence name of their former stations for a while afterward. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Rockefeller family, founded by John Davison Rockefeller (1839-1937) (Senior) and his brother William Rockefeller (1841-1922), is an American industrial, banking, and philanthropic family of German-American origin that made the worlds largest private fortune in the oil business during the late 19th century, primarily through the...

After ten years, all three stations were put up for sale by NBC on January 9, 2006, with Media General buying the stations on April 6, 2006 (the sale was finalized on June 26, 2006). [2] This virtually undid the NBC-Outlet merger of a decade earlier. January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Media General NYSE: MEG is a media company based in the Southeastern United States. ... April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 188 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Radio stations owned

KKBT (100. ... Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Area    - City 1,290. ... Radio One, Inc NASDAQ: ROIA is an African-American owned U.S. company which owns and operates 69 radio stations in 22 American cities, and programs a channel on XM Satellite Radio. ... KKBT (100. ... News Talk AM 580 WDBO Central Floridas News Weather and Traffic Station Depend on it! Original Call Letters: WDBO Original City of License: Winter Park, Rollins College Originally Licensed: May 24,1924 First aired at 1250 kHz, moved to 1040 in 1927, moved to 620 in 1928, moved to... Nickname: The City Beautiful, O-Town, 407 Location in Orange County and the state of Florida. ... Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded at Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. ... WWKA is a country station in Orlando, Florida broadcasting at 92. ... Nickname: The City Beautiful, O-Town, 407 Location in Orange County and the state of Florida. ... Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded at Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. ... WWKA is a country station in Orlando, Florida broadcasting at 92. ... WJAR (NBC10) is the NBC affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island and New Bedford, Massachusetts. ... Nickname: Beehive of Industry, The Renaissance City Location in Rhode Island Coordinates: Country United States State Rhode Island County Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline (D) Area    - City 20. ... Clear channel stations are AM radio stations that are designated as such so that only one or two 50,000 watt powerhouses operate at night on each designated frequency, covering a wide area via sky wave propagation. ... WHJJ is an AM Radio station in Providence, Rhode Island broadcasting at 920 AM. It was the Rhode Island affiliate of Air America Radio until 2005 In 2005 and 2006, WHJJ won Associated Press awards for the Massachusetts/Rhode Island area; the 2005 award was for enterprise reporting, while the... WBRU is a commercial radio station in Providence, Rhode Island that broadcasts at 95. ... Nickname: Beehive of Industry, The Renaissance City Location in Rhode Island Coordinates: Country United States State Rhode Island County Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline (D) Area    - City 20. ... Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... WBRU is a commercial radio station in Providence, Rhode Island that broadcasts at 95. ... WSNE is a southern New England variety music radio station based in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. It broadcasts on 93. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Clear channel stations are AM radio stations that are designated as such so that only one or two 50,000 watt powerhouses operate at night on each designated frequency, covering a wide area via sky wave propagation. ... Nickname: Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin for, We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) Location in Wayne County, Michigan Coordinates: Country United States State Michigan County Wayne County Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Area    - City 370. ... Greater Media, Inc. ... WTOP is the only all-news radio station in Washington, DC. The stations primary signal is a monaural FM broadcast at 103. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... Bonneville International Corporation, managed by Deseret Management Corporation, is a broadcasting company wholly owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church). ... WGMS, known on air as Classical 104. ... WTWP/WTWP-FM a radio station in Washington, D.C., began operation on March 30, 2006 as Washington Post Radio. ... WMMJ is a top rated station Urban Adult Contemporary radio station owned by Radio One in the Washington, D.C. market. ... Bethesda is an urbanized, but unincorporated, area in Montgomery County, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a church located there, the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, built in 1820 and rebiult in 1850, which in turn took its name from the Aramaic words Beth Hesda, meaning house of... Radio One, Inc NASDAQ: ROIA is an African-American owned U.S. company which owns and operates 69 radio stations in 22 American cities, and programs a channel on XM Satellite Radio. ... WHFS are the call letters for the FM radio station transmitting on 105. ...

Television stations owned

WCMH-TV General Information WCMH-TV is the NBC television affiliate in Columbus, Ohio. ... Nickname: The Arch City The Discovery City Location in the state of Ohio, USA Coordinates: Country United States State Ohio Counties Franklin, Delaware, and Fairfield Mayor Michael B. Coleman (D) Area    - City 550. ... It has been suggested that NBC Radio City Studios, NBC Studios be merged into this article or section. ... Media General NYSE: MEG is a media company based in the Southeastern United States. ... WKMG channel 6, known on air as Local 6, is a television station based in Orlando, Florida, affiliated with the CBS network. ... Nickname: The City Beautiful, O-Town, 407 Location in Orange County and the state of Florida. ... CBS (an abbreviation for Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. ... The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) is an American media company, best known for owning the newspaper it is named after, The Washington Post, and Newsweek magazine. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... WSYR-TV (known as WIXT-TV until 2005) is a television station located in Syracuse, New York; broadcasting on VHF channel 9 and affiliated with the ABC television network. ... Nickname: The Salt City Location of Syracuse within the state of New York Coordinates: City Mayor Matthew Driscoll Area    - City 66. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... Clear channel stations are AM radio stations that are designated as such so that only one or two 50,000 watt powerhouses operate at night on each designated frequency, covering a wide area via sky wave propagation. ... WJAR (NBC10) is the NBC affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island and New Bedford, Massachusetts. ... Nickname: Beehive of Industry, The Renaissance City Location in Rhode Island Coordinates: Country United States State Rhode Island County Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline (D) Area    - City 20. ... It has been suggested that NBC Radio City Studios, NBC Studios be merged into this article or section. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... Media General NYSE: MEG is a media company based in the Southeastern United States. ... San Antonio International Airport is an airport in San Antonio, Texas. ... Nickname: Alamo City; River City Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: Counties Bexar County Mayor Phil Hardberger Area    - City 1067. ... 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WNCN-TV, NBC17, is the NBC owned-and-operated (O&O) station in the Triangle region of North Carolina, broadcasting on channel 17 and digital 55. ... Location in North Carolina Coordinates: Founded / Incorporated 1787 / 1847 Mayor Alfonzo Al King Area    - City 64. ... The WB Television Network is a television network in the United States, founded as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. ... Media General NYSE: MEG is a media company based in the Southeastern United States. ... WATL, channel 36, is a television station in Atlanta, Georgia affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by the Gannett Company and is a sister station to WXIA-TV (channel 11), Atlantas NBC affiliate. ... Nickname: Hotlanta, The Big Peach, The ATL, A-Town Location in Fulton County in the state of Georgia Coordinates: Country United States State Georgia Counties Fulton, Dekalb Mayor Shirley Franklin (D) Area    - City 343. ... A fox is a member of any of 27 species of small omnivorous canids. ... 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Fant Broadcasting

In 1994, Outlet bought a minority share into the startup company Fant Broadcasting, which in 1995 signed on two stations in Outlet markets which Outlet operated by local marketing agreements. Both of these stations were joint WB/UPN affiliates (primarily the former) under Outlet control. PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS... The WB Television Network, casually referred to as The WB, or sometimes as The Frog (referring to the networks former mascot, the animated character Michigan J. Frog), is a television network in the United States, founded as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. ... UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) was a television network in over 200 markets in the United States. ...

NBC kept involvement with the Fant stations until they orchestrated a three way deal in which Fant sold itself to Paramount Stations Group and, in return, NBC acquired Paramount's WVIT in Hartford, Connecticut in 1997. Both stations later changed their primary affiliation to UPN, retaining the WB network as a secondary affiliation. With the merger of UPN and The WB in Fall 2006 into the CW Television Network, both WLWC and WWHO have been confirmed as affiliates. WLWC (UPN28) is the UPN owned and operated television station licensed to New Bedford, Massachusetts and serving the Providence, Rhode Island market. ...   Nickname: The Whaling City A view of New Bedford from the harbor Settled: 1640 â€“ Incorporated: 1787 Zip Code(s): 02740, 02744, 02745, 02746 â€“ Area Code(s): 508 / 774 Official website: http://www. ... CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS) is an American media conglomerate focused on broadcasting, publishing, billboards, and television production, with most of its operations in the United States. ... WWHO, UPN Columbus, is the Columbus, Ohio television affiliate for both UPN and The WB television network. ... Nickname: Ohios First Capital Location in the state of Ohio Coordinates: Country United States State Ohio Counties Ross Mayor Joseph P. Sulzer (D) Area    - City 25. ... LIN TV Corporation is an American holding company that operates 23 television stations and has investments in five other stations. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... WVIT, channel 30, is the NBC owned-and-operated station for the state of Connecticut. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The CW Television Network, or more casually The CW, is a new television network in the United States set to launch for the 2006-07 television season. ...

External links

• History of the Outlet Company
• Official History of WJAR