The RKO Radio Network, a subsidiary of RKO General, was the first commercial radio network to distribute programming entirely by satellite. When it began...
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RKO General Inc. (previously General Teleradio Inc. and RKO Teleradio Pictures Inc.) was an American broadcasting company that, from 1952 through 1991...
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RKO Radio Pictures Inc., commonly known as RKO Pictures or simply RKO, was an American film production and distribution company, one of the "Big Five"...
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company for General Tire and Rubber Company up to 1981 RKO Radio Network, a subsidiary of RKO General Rutten Komt Op, a football team of Rutten, Flevoland...
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Stations (later Mid Atlantic Network Inc.) RKO Radio Network (absorbed by Westwood One, see also Transtar) Rural Radio Network (operated 1948-1960 in New...
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late-1950s, Hughes Tool owned the RKO companies, including RKO Pictures, RKO Studios, RKO Theatres, and the RKO Radio Network. In 1946, Hughes gave Noah Dietrich...
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The Bott Radio Network is a network of Christian radio stations in the United States, broadcasting Christian talk and teaching programs. Programs heard...
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WWWX (category Articles using infobox radio station)
this time to contemporary hit radio under the moniker SuperHit 97; the station was affiliated with the RKO Radio Network and competed with WIXX. WAHC kept...
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to be broadcast on the RKO Radio Network. At around 5 p.m., Lennon and Ono, delayed by a late limousine shared with the RKO Radio crew, left their apartment...
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Howard Hughes (category Amateur radio people)
ownership of the RKO companies, which included RKO Pictures, RKO Studios, a chain of movie theaters known as RKO Theatres and a network of radio stations known...
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RKO Pictures (also known as RKO Productions, Radio Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, and RKO Teleradio Pictures) is an American film production and distribution...
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WRKO (category RKO General)
radio network it organized, the RKO Radio Network. The FCC license hearings culminated in the loss of the company's license to operate WNAC-TV; RKO General...
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the company merged with the United Stations Radio Network (which had already bought the RKO Radio Networks in 1985). The new company was named Unistar...
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Broadcasting Company's NBC Radio Network (also known as the NBC Red Network from 1927 to 1942) was an American commercial radio network which was in continuous...
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communication. Olbermann began his professional career at UPI and the RKO Radio Network before joining then-nascent CNN in 1981. Among the early stories he...
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named "United Stations Radio Network" (singular), also founded by Clark, Verbitsky, and Salamon in 1980, bought the RKO Radio Networks in 1985 and eventually...
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Mutual Broadcasting System (redirect from Mutual Radio Network)
Mutual Radio or the Mutual Radio Network) was an American commercial radio network in operation from 1934 to 1999. In the golden age of U.S. radio drama...
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the radio network and the record company were suffering huge financial losses and General Tire divested both of them: Mutual was sold to 3M, while RKO/Unique...
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Dick Clark (category American radio DJs)
over the National Music Survey. Clark's United Stations purchased RKO Radio Network in 1985 and, when Clark left Mutual, he began hosting USRN's "Countdown...
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Charley Steiner (category American radio sports announcers)
sportscaster, while working simultaneously as the sports director for the RKO Radio Network. He was also the play-by-play voice for the USFL's New Jersey Generals...
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acquisition of RKO Radio Pictures from Howard Hughes in 1955 for $25 million. The General Tire & Rubber Company was interested mainly in using the RKO film library...
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About TV which appeared on WNYC-TV. He had a radio show known as "Watching TV" on the RKO Radio Network in the early 1980s. Kirkus Reviews said of 1969's...
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WABC (AM) (category Articles using infobox radio station)
WABC as staff announcers and producers. McKay left WABC in 1984 for RKO Radio Network and Donovan stayed at WABC until his retirement in 2015. Monday, May...
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WBZ-FM (category RKO General)
Sports Radio; the flagship station for the New England Patriots, Boston Bruins, Boston Celtics, and New England Revolution radio networks; and the radio home...
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House, St. Louis, MO, and the performance was recorded live for the RKO Radio Network. The band's album Looks Like Trouble was produced by Spencer Proffer...
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Broadcast syndication (redirect from Off-network)
television shows and radio programs to multiple television stations and radio stations, without going through a broadcast network. It is common in the...
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Alfons Figueras, Spanish animator and comics artist (MGM animation, RKO Radio Network, Hispano Graphic Films), dies at age 86. July 14: Dallas McKennon...
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Westwood One (1976–2011) (redirect from Westwood One Radio Network)
managing competing Unistar Radio Networks (formerly known as the RKO Radio Networks and later as United Stations Radio Networks, which merged with Transtar...
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CKLW (category RKO General)
purchase by RKO General in 1963. When Mutual was restructured as a cooperative in 1940, CKLW was one of the major shareholders in the network. Alongside...
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Orson Welles (category RKO Pictures contract players)
the cancellation of his contract at RKO Radio Studio, the expulsion of his company Mercury Productions from the RKO lot, and, ultimately, the total suspension...
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