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Media General
Media General was an American media company based in Richmond, Virginia. The company's origins can be traced back to 1887 when Richmond attorney Joseph Bryan acquired ''The Richmond Daily Times'', which later became ''The Richmond Times-Dispatch''. Joseph Bryan's son, John Stewart Bryan succeeded his father as owner and publisher of the ''Times-Dispatch'', which merged with ''The Richmond News Leader'' in 1940 to form Richmond Newspapers, Inc. After John Stewart Bryan's death in 1944, his son, D. Tennant Bryan led the company into a period of expansion into television, changing the company's name to Media General in 1969. Media General, Inc. began trading on the American Stock Exchange in 1970. In 1990, J. Stewart Bryan III, great-grandson of Joseph Bryan, became chairman, president and chief executive officer of Media General. The fourth-generation Bryan oversaw the company's expansion into digital media and the sale of Media General's newspaper division to Berkshire Hathaway in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries. The availability of various types of archival st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFLA-TV
WFLA-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Tampa, Florida, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Tampa Bay area. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside St. Petersburg–licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate WTTA (channel 38). WFLA-TV and WTTA share studios on South Parker Street in downtown Tampa; through a channel sharing agreement, the stations transmit using WFLA-TV's spectrum from an antenna in Riverview, Florida. History Channel 8 first signed on the air on February 14, 1955, with a live broadcast of the Gasparilla Pirate Festival. It is the longest serving television outlet in the Tampa Bay region still in operation, as it signed on less than two years behind UHF outlet WSUN-TV (channel 38), which ceased operations in 1970. It was originally owned by ''The Tampa Tribune'', along with WFLA radio (970 AM and 93.3 FM, now WFLZ). WFLA-TV has been an NBC affiliate since the station's inception. Largely because of its newspaper background, it was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFLZ-FM
WFLZ-FM (93.3 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Tampa, Florida. It airs a contemporary hit radio (CHR/Top 40) radio format and is owned and operated by iHeartMedia. The station's studios and offices are located on Gandy Boulevard in South Tampa. Local DJs are heard on weekdays, with syndicated shows, including ''American Top 40 with Ryan Seacrest'', the ''iHeartRadio Countdown'', the '' Remix Top 30 with Hollywood Hamilton'' and ''On The Move with Enrique Santos'', heard on weekends. WFLZ has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. The transmitter is off Rhodine Road in Riverview, Florida, amid other towers for Tampa-area TV and FM stations. WFLZ-FM broadcasts in the HD Radio format; the HD2 subchannel carries Pride Radio, an iHeart service for LGBTQ listeners, while the HD3 subchannel carries Evolution, iHeartMedia's dance music/EDM service. History Early years In 1948, the station signed on as WFLA-FM, one of Tampa Bay's and Florida's earliest FM station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFLA (AM)
WFLA (970 AM) is a commercial radio station in Tampa, Florida, and serving the Tampa Bay media market. The station airs a talk radio format and is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. The station's studios and offices are located on Gandy Boulevard in South Tampa. WFLA broadcasts by day at 25,000 watts, reducing power to 11,000 watts at night. (For most of its history, from the 1940s to the early 2000s, it ran at 5,000 watts.) It uses a directional antenna at all times. The main transmitter site is off Montague Street in Town 'n' Country, Florida. Programming is also heard on two FM translators, 94.5 MHz in Gulfport and 99.1 in Bayonet Point. Programming Weekdays on WFLA begin with a local morning show, ''AM Tampa Bay'', hosted by Jack Harris, Aaron Jacobson, Katie Butchino and Natalie Aquilia. From 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., ''The Ryan Gorman Show'' airs, hosted by Ryan Gorman, who used to host ''PM Tampa Bay''. The station used to also be the flagship for nationally sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tampa Tribune
''The Tampa Tribune'' was a daily newspaper published in Tampa, Florida. Along with the competing ''Tampa Bay Times'', the ''Tampa Tribune'' was one of two major newspapers published in the Tampa Bay area. The newspaper also published a ''St. Petersburg Tribune'' edition, sold and distributed in Pinellas County. It published a Sunday magazine, ''Florida Accent'', during the 1960s and 1970s. ''The Tampa Tribune'' also operated ''Highlands Today'', a daily newspaper in Sebring. The ''Tribune'' stopped publishing the ''Hernando Today'', which was located in Brooksville, on December 1, 2014, citing "a tough newspaper advertising climate." On May 3, 2016, the ''Tampa Bay Times'' announced that it had acquired the ''Tribune'', and was combining the ''Times'' and ''Tribune''s operations, ending publication of the ''Tribune''. History Daily publication of the ''Tribune'' started in 1895 when Wallace Stovall upgraded printing from once a week. In 1927, newspaper mogul John Stewart B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond News Leader
''The Richmond News Leader'' was an afternoon daily newspaper published in Richmond, Virginia from 1888 to 1992. During much of its run, it was the largest newspaper source in Richmond, competing with the morning '' Richmond Times-Dispatch''. By the late 1960s, afternoon papers had been steadily losing their audiences to television, and ''The News Leader'' was no exception. Its circulation at one time exceeded 200,000, but at the time of its closing, it had fallen below 80,000. Notable alumni of the newspaper included historian and biographer Douglas Southall Freeman, future television journalist Roger Mudd, conservative commentator James Kilpatrick, and editorial cartoonist Jeff MacNelly.Richmond News Leader, R I P ''National Review'', 22 June 1992 During its run, it garnered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Its main business and source of capital is insurance, from which it invests the float (the retained premiums) in a broad portfolio of subsidiaries, equity positions and other securities. The company has been overseen since 1965 by its chairman and CEO Warren Buffett and (since 1978) vice chairman Charlie Munger, who are known for their advocacy of value investing principles. Under their direction, the company's book value has grown at an average rate of 20%, compared to about 10% from the S&P 500 index with dividends included over the same period, while employing large amounts of capital and minimal debt. The company's insurance brands include auto insurer GEICO and reinsurance firm General Re. Its non-insurance subsidiaries operate in diverse sectors such as confectionery, retail, Rail transport, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Stock Exchange
NYSE American, formerly known as the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), and more recently as NYSE MKT, is an American stock exchange situated in New York City. AMEX was previously a mutual organization, owned by its members. Until 1953, it was known as the New York Curb Exchange. NYSE Euronext acquired AMEX on October 1, 2008, with AMEX integrated with the Alternext European small-cap exchange and renamed the NYSE Alternext U.S. In March 2009, NYSE Alternext U.S. was changed to NYSE Amex Equities. On May 10, 2012, NYSE Amex Equities changed its name to NYSE MKT LLC. Following the SEC approval of competing stock exchange IEX in 2016, NYSE MKT rebranded as NYSE American and introduced a 350-microsecond delay in trading, referred to as a "speed bump", which is also present on the IEX. History The Curb market The exchange grew out of the loosely organized curb market of curbstone brokers on Broad Street in Manhattan. Efforts to organize and standardize the market started early in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Richmond News Leader
''The Richmond News Leader'' was an afternoon daily newspaper published in Richmond, Virginia from 1888 to 1992. During much of its run, it was the largest newspaper source in Richmond, competing with the morning ''Richmond Times-Dispatch''. By the late 1960s, afternoon papers had been steadily losing their audiences to television, and ''The News Leader'' was no exception. Its circulation at one time exceeded 200,000, but at the time of its closing, it had fallen below 80,000. Notable alumni of the newspaper included historian and biographer Douglas Southall Freeman, future television journalist Roger Mudd, conservative commentator James Kilpatrick, and editorial cartoonist Jeff MacNelly.Richmond News Leader, R I P ''National Review'', 22 June 1992 During its run, it garnered a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stewart Bryan
John Stewart Bryan (October 23, 1871 – October 16, 1944) was an American newspaper publisher, attorney, and college president. He was the nineteenth president of the College of William and Mary, serving from 1934 to 1942. He also served as the fourth American chancellor of the college from 1942 to 1944. Prior to his service as president of the College of William and Mary, Bryan served as the publisher of the ''Richmond Times-Dispatch'' and the president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Early life In 1871, John Stewart Bryan was born in Henrico County, Virginia, to an affluent southern family. Bryan's great grandfather Joseph Bryan had been a congressman from Georgia from 1803 to 1806. His grandfather John Randolph Bryan was tutored by his namesake John Randolph of Virginia and ultimately relocated his family to Gloucester County, Virginia and then Fluvanna County, Virginia. John Stewart Bryan's father served in the Civil War before completing his law degree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond Times-Dispatch
The ''Richmond Times-Dispatch'' (''RTD'' or ''TD'' for short) is the primary daily newspaper in Richmond, Virginia, Richmond, the capital of Virginia, and the primary newspaper of record for the state of Virginia. Circulation The ''Times-Dispatch'' has the second-highest circulation of any Virginia newspaper, after Norfolk, Virginia, Norfolk's ''The Virginian-Pilot''. In addition to the Richmond area (Petersburg, Virginia, Petersburg, Chester, Virginia, Chester, Hopewell, Virginia, Hopewell, Colonial Heights, Virginia, Colonial Heights and surrounding areas), the ''Times-Dispatch'' has substantial readership in Charlottesville, Lynchburg, Virginia, Lynchburg, and Waynesboro, Virginia, Waynesboro. As the primary paper of the state's capital, the ''Times-Dispatch'' serves as a newspaper of record for rural regions of the state that lack large local papers. The ''Times-Dispatch'' lists itself as "Virginia's News Leader" on its Nameplate (publishing), masthead. History and notable ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
