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Fwd: Class A AMs and their owners
>I count 58 stations and 20 separate owners. At some point I'll have to go
>back to the 1970 Broadcasting Yearbook and see who owned what back then.
And so I did...actually, I used the 1968 BY, to give us a nice 35-year
span. Here's what I found - 44 owners (two of them sharing time on one
class I-A and another class III facility) among these 58 stations:
>> KAAY | 1090 Citadel
LIN Broadcasting
>> KDKA | 1020 Viacom
Westinghouse
>> KEX | 1190 CCU
Golden West (Gene Autry)
>> KFAB | 1110 CCU
KFAB Broadcasting - Lee Enterprises (Lincoln Journal and Star)
>> KFAQ | 1170 Journal Broadcast Group
KVOO back then - Southwestern Sales Corp.
>> KFBK | 1530 CCU
McClatchy (newspaper/TV cross-ownership)
>> KFI | 640 CCU
Earle C. Anthony Inc. (car dealer)
>> KGA | 1510 Citadel
Gran Broadcasting
>> KGO | 810 Disney
ABC
>> KIRO | 710 Entercom
Bonneville
>> KMOX | 1120 Viacom
CBS
>> KNBR | 680 Susquehanna
NBC
>> KNX | 1070 Viacom
CBS
>> KNZR | 1560 Buckley
KPMC back then; Pioneer Mercantile Co.
>> KOA | 850 CCU
GE
>> KOMA | 1520 Renda
Storz
>> KOMO | 1000 Fisher
Fisher
>> KRLD | 1080 Viacom
Dallas Times-Herald (newspaper, TV cross-owned)
>> KSL | 1160 Bonneville
Bonneville
>> KSTP | 1500 Hubbard
Hubbard
>> KWKH | 1130 CCU
International Broadcasting Corp.
>> KXEL | 1540 Bahakel
Bahakel
>> KYW | 1060 Viacom
Westinghouse
>> WABC | 770 Disney
ABC
>> WBAL | 1090 Hearst
Hearst
>> WBAP | 820 Disney
820 back then was the WBAP/WFAA sharetime, with WBAP owned by
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and WFAA by Belo (Dallas Morning News)
>> WBBM | 780 Viacom
CBS
>> WBBR | 1130 Bloomberg
WNEW back then; Metromedia
>> WBT | 1110 Jefferson-Pilot
Jefferson Standard
>> WBZ | 1030 Viacom
Westinghouse
>> WCBS | 880 Viacom
CBS
>> WCCO | 830 Viacom
Midwest Radio-TV
>> WFAN | 660 Viacom
WNBC; NBC
>> WGN | 720 Tribune
Tribune
>> WGY | 810 CCU
GE
>> WHAM | 1180 CCU
Rust
>> WHAS | 840 CCU
WHAS Broadcasting Co. (Louisville Courier-Journal)
>> WHO | 1040 CCU
Palmer Stations
>> WJR | 760 Disney
Capital Cities
>> WLAC | 1510 CCU
WLAC Inc.
>> WLS | 890 Disney
ABC
>> WLW | 700 CCU
Avco Broadcasting
>> WMVP | 1000 Disney
WCFL; Chicago Federation of Labor & Industrial Union Council
>> WOAI | 1200 CCU
Avco Broadcasting (though it would be sold a few years later to a used-car
dealer who'd name his company Clear Channel...)
>> WOR | 710 Buckley
RKO
>> WPHT | 1210 Viacom
WCAU; CBS
>> WQEW | 1560 NYT Co, LMA to Disney
WQXR; NYT Co.
>> WRVA | 1140 CCU
Larus & Brother Co.
>> WSAI | 1530 CCU
WCKY; L.B. Wilson, Inc.
>> WSB | 750 Cox
Cox
>> WSCR | 670 Viacom
WMAQ; NBC
>> WSM | 650 Gaylord, LMA to Cumulus
WSM Inc. (which I believe was still the insurance company ownership)
>> WTAM | 1100 CCU
WKYC; NBC
>> WTIC | 1080 Viacom
Travelers Insurance Co. ("Broadcast Plaza Inc.")
>> WTOP | 1500 Bonneville
Post-Newsweek Stations (newspaper and TV cross-ownership)
>> WWKB | 1520 Entercom
WKBW; Capital Cities
>> WWL | 870 Entercom
Loyola U. of the South
>> WWVA | 1170 CCU
Basic Communications.