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Taft Broadcasting Company
FormerlyRadio Cincinnati, Inc. (1939–1959)
Company typeCorporation
Industrytelevisionandradionetwork
Founded1939;85 years ago(1939)
Defunct1999;25 years ago(1999)
FateAcquired byClear Channel Communications
SuccessorsRadio:
iHeartMedia
Library:
Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution
(Hanna-Barberaand pre-1991Ruby-Spearslibrary only)
Endemol Shine Australia
(Hanna-Barbera Pty, Ltd./Taft-Hardie Group Pty. Ltd. library only)
CBS Media Ventures
(throughSpelling Television)
(Worldvision Enterpriseslibrary only)
Paramount Pictures
(throughMelange Pictures)
(Taft International Pictures library only)
Headquarters
Cincinnati, Ohio
,
United States

Taft Broadcasting Company(also known asTaft Television and Radio Company, Incorporated) was an American media conglomerate based inCincinnati,Ohio.

The company was rooted in thefamilyofWilliam Howard Taft,the 27thPresident of the United States.In 1879, William Howard's brother,Charles Phelps Taft,purchased two afternoon newspapers in Cincinnati,The TimesandThe Cincinnati Daily Star,merging them into theCincinnati Times-Starin 1880. It was during the tenure of the merged paper's second publisher,Hulbert Taft Sr.,son of Charles and William Howard's half-brother, Peter Rawson Taft II, that the newspaper also became involved in broadcasting.

The company was the owner of such major media and entertainment properties asHanna-Barbera Productions,Hanna-Barbera Pty, Ltd./Taft-Hardie Group Pty. Ltd.,Worldvision Enterprises,Ruby-Spears Productions,KECO Entertainmentand manytelevisionandradio stations.It also owned 50% ofCIC Video'sAustralianoperations, CIC-Taft Home Video.

The company went through a long reorganization period starting in 1987 with its acquisition byCarl Lindner, Jr.and renamedGreat American Broadcasting.Shortly after filing for bankruptcy in 1993, it becameCiticastersand was, in 1999, acquired by Clear Channel Communications, which was renamediHeartMediain 2014. Taft — as Citicasters — remained incorporated as aholding companywithin iHeartMedia[1]until 2020.[2]

History

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1939–1959

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The Taft family's involvement in broadcasting began in 1939 asRadio Cincinnati, Inc.,when theCincinnati Times-StarpurchasedWKRC radiofromCBS.[3][4]

In April 1949, Taft's first TV station,WKRC-TVin Cincinnati, began broadcasting.[5]

In 1951, in its first expansion outside Ohio, Radio Cincinnati acquired a 20 percent interest in WBIR-AM-FMinKnoxville, Tennesseefrom father-and-son owners J. Lindsay and Gilmore Nunn.[6]A year-and-a-half later, the Taft family increased its stake to 30 percent when the Nunns sold additional shares in that station to Martha and Robert Ashe, John P. Hart, and Radio Cincinnati.[7]

In 1953, Radio Cincinnati purchased WTVN-TV (nowWSYX) inColumbus, Ohio,from Picture-Waves, Inc., controlled byToledoattorney and broadcasterEdward Lamb.[8][9][10]

In 1954, the company bought WHKC radio in Columbus from United Broadcasting, then-owners ofWHKinCleveland;WHKC is renamedWTVN.[11]

In August 1956WBIR-TVin Knoxville began broadcasting, under the same ownership structure as the WBIR radio stations.[12][better source needed]

In 1957, Radio Cincinnati purchased WBRC-AM-FM-TVinBirmingham, Alabama,fromStorer Broadcasting.[13]

In 1958, theCincinnati Times-Starwas merged into theCincinnati Post,published by theE.W. Scripps Company.Radio Cincinnati also purchased WKXP-TV inLe xing ton, Kentucky,from local interests and changed its call letters toWKYT-TV.[14]

In 1959, the company acquired the remaining 70 percent of WBIR-AM-FM-TV in Knoxville.[15]Also in 1959, the Taft family merged its broadcasting subsidiaries into one, using theTaft Broadcasting Companyname.[16]Subsidiaries WBRC, Inc. (WBRC-AM-FM-TV), WTVN, Inc. (WTVN-TV), Radio Cincinnati, Inc. (WKRC-AM-FM-TV and WKYT-TV), and Radio Columbus, Inc. (WTVN-AM-FM) were merged on June 23, 1959[17]and WBIR, Inc. (WBIR-AM-FM-TV) was merged on February 1, 1960.[18]

1960–1979

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The Taft logo from 1959 to 1974.

In 1960, Taft launched WTVN-FM in Columbus (it is nowWLVQ).[19]A year later the company sold the WBIR stations in Knoxville toMultimedia Inc.ofGreenville, South Carolina.[20]

In 1961, Taft signed a group affiliation deal withABC,converting all of the stations Taft had owned at that time, to the network. With WTVN-TV already an ABC affiliate, WBRC-TV, WKYT, and WKRC-TV switched to the network.[21]This came after that network's founderLeonard Goldensonpersuaded Taft president Hulbert Taft Jr., a longtime friend, to switch several of the company's stations to ABC.

In 1963, Taft purchased several stations from Transcontinent Television Corporation:WDAF-AM-FM-TVinKansas City, Missouri,WGR-AM-FM-TVinBuffalo, New York,andWNEP-TVinScranton, Pennsylvania.[22][23]

In October 1966, Taft purchased theHanna-Barberacartoon studio from its founders,Joseph Barbera,William HannaandGeorge Sidney.[24]Several months later in April 1967, the firm sold WKYT-TV to a subsidiary of Kentucky Central Life Insurance Company.[25]

On November 10, 1967, Taft Broadcasting president and chairman Hulbert Taft Jr. died in liquid propane gas-related explosion[26]in a bomb shelter he had built on his property in the Cincinnati suburb of Indian Hill.[27]Days after his death, his son Dudley S. Taft replaced him on the firm's board of directors,[28]and he eventually became head of the company.

In 1969, Taft purchased WIBF-TV inPhiladelphiaand changed its call letters toWTAF-TV.[29]The FCC initially granted Taft a waiver to keep both WTAF-TV and WNEP-TV, but later reversed itself in 1973 (four years later), and Taft sold the Scranton outlet to the station's management, who formed NEP Communications.[30]Also that year, the broadcasting group formed The Sy Fischer Company to produce television programming.[31]

In 1970, Taft formedRhodes Productions,a television syndication arm for various independent TV programs, including those of Hanna-Barbera.[32][33]

In 1972, Taft opened its first theme park,Kings Island,outside of Cincinnati. Taft owned five other theme parks through itsKECO Entertainmentdivision. WBRC radio and WBRC-FM in Birmingham are sold to Mooney Broadcasting.[34]Taft's Rhodes Productions subsidiary has hired John Pearson International as international backer of its programming.[35]In 1973, Taft sold WNEP-TV in Scranton to its management, called NEP Communications.[36]

In 1974, Taft acquiredTop 40stationKQVandrockoutletWDVE,both inPittsburgh,fromABC Radio.[37]

In 1975, a second theme park based on Kings Island,Kings Dominion,opened outside ofRichmond.Rhodes Productions was renamed to Taft, H-B Program Sales while Taft, H-B International was established as the new overseas television distribution arm for the company.[38]Rhodes was eventually revived two weeks later underFilmways.[39]CarowindsinCharlotte, North Carolinawas acquired by the company in 1975 from the Carowinds Corporation.

In 1979, Taft purchasedWDCA-TVinWashington, D.C.from the Superior Tube Company.[40][41]Around this same period, Taft also acquired independent distributorWorldvision Enterprises(formerly a division of ABC) and production companyQM Productions.[42][43]

1980–1987

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In 1980, Taft acquiredSunn Classic Picturesand two additionalSchickdivisions. Sunn Classic was reincorporated asTaft International Pictures.[44]In 1981, two Taft executives launched Jensen Farley Pictures to purchase the company's distribution assets, while in 1982, the company name was reverted back to Sunn Classic Pictures.[45][46]

In 1981, Taft acquiredRuby-Spears ProductionsfromFilmways.Around this time, in the early 1980s, Taft split its operation into two "subdivisions": the "Taft Entertainment Company"(which included Hanna-Barbera, Ruby-Spears, Worldvision, the theme parks, Taft International Pictures, and Taft Entertainment Television), which was headed by Sy Fischer.[31]The other was the "Taft Television & Radio Co, Inc.".Also in 1981, Taft, in partnership withThe Great-West Life Assurance CompanyofWinnipeg,openedCanada's Wonderland,a theme park nearToronto.[47]Taft also bought television producer Titus Productions, run byHerbert Brodkinlater that year as part of the Taft Entertainment Company.[48]

In 1982, KQV in Pittsburgh was sold to its general manager Robert W. Dickey and newspaper publisherRichard Mellon Scaife,under the "Calvary, Inc." banner.[49]

In 1983, Taft exchanged WGR-TV in Buffalo to General Cinema Corporation's Coral Television subsidiary in return forWCIXinMiami.[50]In 1984, the Taft Entertainment Company was reorganized, in order to set up various theatrical projects that was made by the studio, such asOn Wings with Eagles.[51]Also that year, it formed a partnership withKeith Barishto start out a joint venture, with a worldwide distribution alliance at20th Century Foxto distribute the films.[52]During that year, Taft decided to rename the former QM Productions unit as Taft Entertainment Television, withThe Lucie Arnaz Showbeing the first show to be produced under that name.[53]

On August 20, 1986, Taft/Barish Productions, the feature film joint venture between the broadcasting group and Keith Barish Productions had inked a ten-picture distribution deal withTri-Star Picturesfor $200 million, to handle domestic distribution of the films at a rate of four to six films per year.[54]

In 1985, Taft purchased Gulf Broadcasting, which includedKTXAinFort Worth;KTXHinHouston;WTSPinSt. Petersburg, Florida;KTSP-TV (nowKSAZ-TV) inPhoenix;KESQ-TVinPalm Springs, California;andWGHPinHigh Point, North Carolina.[55][56]As a result, Taft sold several radio stations toCBSto comply with FCC rules.[57]KESQ-TV was spun off to former Gulf Broadcasting executive E. Grant Fitts.[58] In October 1986, WTAF-TV in Philadelphia and WCIX in Miami becamecharter affiliatesof theFox Broadcasting Company.[59]One month later, Taft announced the sale of both of those stations along with its threeindependentstations (WDCA-TV, KTXA, and KTXH) to theTVX Broadcast Group;the sale was completed in April 1987.[60][61]Taft also sold WGR radio and WRLT-FM (the former WGR-FM) in Buffalo to Rich Communications, a subsidiary of Buffalo-basedRich Products.[62]In 1987, Taft, wanting to purchase more network-affiliated television stations, is looking to sell Taft Entertainment Group, the entertainment subsidiary of the Taft Broadcasting company to a different buyer, with estimates cost $300 million, and the group had a record production year in 1986 out of 334 animated half hours and 63 live-action half hour programs, to the three networks, to the cable networks, to first-run syndication.[63]

Taft Broadcasting Company was purchased by TFBA Limited Partnership, which includedRobert M. Bassas a partner, in April 1987 for $1.43 billion, taking the company private.[64]

Successor companies

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Later in 1987, Cincinnati-based businessmanCarl Lindner, Jr.became Taft's majority stockholder in a hostile takeover and renamed the companyGreat American Broadcasting(also known asGreat American Communications) following a major restructuring of its operations. The new name came from Linder's insurance company,Great American Insurance.The FCC considered this restructuring to be an ownership change, and told Lindner he could not keep both WTVN-TV and WKRC-TV. As a result, Great American spun off WTVN-TV to Anchor Media, a new firm composed of former Taft Broadcasting board members led by Robert Bass. (The two stations have since been reunited under theSinclair Broadcast Group,with cross-ownership rules having since been relaxed.) Another new company, led by former Taft Broadcasting president Dudley S. Taft Sr., took the Taft Broadcasting name. This new company retained WGHP and later purchases another Philadelphia station,WPHL-TV.[65][66]

In 1988, Great American Broadcasting sold Worldvision toAaron Spelling Productions.Included with Worldvision were outright ownership of all of Great American's programming assets (including the remnants of Taft International Pictures and Taft Entertainment Television), except for the Hanna-Barbera and Ruby-Spears libraries, which remained owned by Great American for the time being. However, Worldvision continued to hold syndication rights until the two animation studios found new owners.

In 1991, Hanna-Barbera, along with much of the original Ruby-Spears library, was acquired byTurner Broadcasting System,which became part ofTime Warnerin 1996. As part of this deal, syndication rights to the libraries were passed toTurner Program Services(viaTurner Entertainment Co.) prior to Time Warner's purchase of Turner. Eventually, TPS was folded intoWarner Bros. Television Distribution.The Ruby-Spears studio was spun off and bought back by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, and operated as an independent operation from then forward.[67]

In 1992, KECO Entertainment, Great American's theme park division, was sold to Paramount Communications (the parent ofParamount Pictures;the parent company was formerly known asGulf+Western) and becameParamount Parks,later to be acquired byViacom.(These parks were sold toCedar FairEntertainment Co. by CBS in 2006.) Great American also reacquired WGHP from Dudley Taft.

In 1993, Great American filed forChapter 11bankruptcyand renamed toCiticasters Communications.It also sold WKRC radio toJacorand shut downElectra,a teletext service operated as a joint venture between Taft,Zenith,and Turner Broadcasting's WTBS (nowWPCH-TV) inAtlanta.

In 1994, Citicasters sold most of its TV stations, including WDAF-TV and KSAZ-TV toNew World Communications,and WBRC and WGHP to theNews Corporation'sFox Television Stationsunit, which would later acquire the New World chain. Around the same time, when two of the markets switched to ABC via Scripps, Citicasters agreed to a two-station deal withCBSto affiliate withWTSPandWKRC.

In 1996, Citicasters, by then the owner of two television stations, five AM radio stations and 14 FM radio stations, merged with Jacor, which became a subsidiary of Citicasters. Three months after the merger was completed, Jacor exchanged WTSP to Gannett in return for Gannett's radio stations inLos Angeles,San Diegoand Tampa. In 1997, as a condition of the merger, Jacor sold WKRQ and the original WDAF-FM (by then KYYS, now KCKC) toAmerican Radio Systems,which would become acquired byInfinity Broadcasting(later renamedCBS Radio) in 1998. Also in 1997, Jacor sold WDAF (AM) (now KCSP) toEntercom.

In 1997, the Worldvision properties that had previously been under Taft and Great American (with the exception of the Hanna-Barbera and most of the Ruby-Spears material) were incorporated intoRepublic Pictures(today part ofCBS Studios).

In 1999,Clear Channel Communicationsacquired Citicasters and Jacor. The Citicasters name lived on as a holding company and licensee under the Clear Channel corporate structure;[1]the two subsidiaries with the name were eliminated at the end of 2020 as part of a reorganization of iHeartMedia's subsidiaries.[2]

Former stations

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Stations are arranged in Alpha betical order by state and city of license.

  • (**) Indicates a station that was built and signed-on by Taft.

Television

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City of license/Market Station Channel Years owned Current status
Birmingham–Tuscaloosa–Anniston, AL WBRC-TV 6 1957–1994 Foxaffiliate owned byGray Television
Phoenix, AZ KTSP-TV 10 1985–1994 Fox owned-and-operated (O&O)KSAZ-TV
Washington, D.C. WDCA-TV 20 1979–1987 MyNetworkTVaffiliate owned byFox Television Stations
Miami–Fort Lauderdale, FL WCIX 6 1983–1987 CBSowned-and-operated (O&O)WFOR-TVon channel 4
St. Petersburg–Tampa, FL WTSP 10 1985–1994 CBS affiliate owned byTegna Inc.
Le xing ton, KY WKYT-TV 27 1958–1967 CBS affiliate owned by Gray Television
Kansas City, MO WDAF-TV 4 1964–1994 Fox affiliate owned byNexstar Media Group
Buffalo, NY WGR-TV 2 1964–1983 NBCaffiliateWGRZ,owned by Tegna Inc.
High Point–Greensboro–Winston-Salem, NC WGHP 8 1985–1994 Fox affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
Cincinnati, OH WKRC-TV** 12 1949–1995 CBS affiliate owned bySinclair Broadcast Group
Columbus, OH WTVN-TV 6 1953–1987 ABCaffiliateWSYX,owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
Philadelphia, PA WTAF-TV 29 1969–1987 Fox owned-and-operated (O&O)WTXF-TV
WPHL-TV 17 1987–1992 The CWandMyNetworkTVaffiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
Scranton–Wilkes-Barre, PA WNEP-TV 16 1964–1973 ABC affiliate owned by Tegna Inc.
Knoxville, TN WBIR-TV 10 1959–19601 NBC affiliate owned by Tegna Inc.
Fort Worth–Dallas, TX KTXA 21 1985–1987 Independentstation owned byParamount Global
Houston, TX KTXH 20 1985–1987 MyNetworkTV affiliate owned by Fox Television Stations
  • 1Prior to full ownership, Taft held a 30% interest in WBIR between 1956 and 1959.

Radio

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(a partial listing)

AM Station FM Station
City of license / Market Station Years owned Current status
Birmingham, AL WBRC 960 1957–1972 WERC,owned byiHeartMedia
WBRC-FM 106.9 1957–1972 WBPT,owned bySummitMedia
Kansas City, MO WDAF 610 1964–1987 KCSP,owned byAudacy, Inc.
WDAF-FM 102.1 1964–1987 KCKC,owned by Steel City Media
Buffalo, NY WGR550 1964–1987 Owned by Audacy, Inc.
WGR-FM 96.9 1964–1987 WGRF,owned byCumulus Media
Cincinnati, OH WKRC550 1939–1987 Owned by iHeartMedia
WKRC-FM 101.9 ** 1947–1987 WKRQ,owned byHubbard Broadcasting
Columbus, OH WTVN610 1954–1987 Owned by iHeartMedia
WTVN-FM 96.3 ** 1960–1987 WLVQ,owned by Saga Communications
Pittsburgh, PA KQV1410 1974–1982 Owned by Broadcast Educational Communications, Inc.
WDVE102.5 1974–1987 Owned by iHeartMedia
Knoxville, TN WBIR 1240 1959–19601 WIFA,owned by Progressive Media, Inc.
WBIR-FM 103.5 1959–19601 WIMZ-FM,owned byMidwest Communications
  • 1Prior to full ownership, Taft held a 20% interest in the station from 1951 to 1953. The stake was increased to 30% from 1953 to 1959.

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