New World Communications
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News Corporation became a major investor in 1994 and purchased the company outright in 1997; the alliance with News Corporation helped to cement the Fox network as the fourth major Excel Communications U.S. New World Communications of Tampa ), continues to exist as a holding company within the complex NewsCorp corporate structure. See also: U.S.
Stations formerly owned by New World and still owned by Fox, the copyright for the stations is either New World Communications of (city or state) or NW Communications of (city or state). These names have been used as the licensee names of these stations except between 2007 and late June 2009. . That year also brought in the acquisition of Cannell Entertainment and Premiere magazine (Premiere magazine was purchased in a joint venture between New World and Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., when New World was sold to News Corporation, Hachette-Filipacchi took full ownership of Premiere). In 1996 New World sold the Birmingham and San Diego stations to NBC.
Both KNSD and WVTM retained their NBC affiliations. Later that year, former NBC Entertainment president Brandon Tartikoff joined the company, and as a result New World acquired his production company Moving Target Productions. Later, it signed a distribution deal with NBC (Access Hollywood was the only program that came out of the deal, it is now distributed by NBC Universal Television) which also called for ten-year NBC affiliation renewals on the Birmingham and San Diego stations.
And, in San Diego, KNSD did not switch because Fox was already on a VHF station, Tijuana, Mexico-based XETV. New World Pictures was an independent motion picture and television production company, and later television station owner in the United States from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.
(formerly known as Gillett Communications, and previously Storer Broadcasting) was folded into New World, and the company changed its name to New World Communications. television network affiliate switches of 1994 In 1993, New World Entertainment purchased stakes in program distributor Genesis Entertainment and infomercial producer Guthy-Renker.
In Birmingham, WVTM was not included because WBRC would be sold to Fox directly, and would switch to Fox when its affiliation contract with ABC expired. As well, Genesis Entertainment was renamed New World-Genesis Distribution.
Argyle s stations included: A month later, New World acquired four stations from Citicasters (formerly known as Taft Broadcasting): Because of Federal Communications Commission ownership rules at the time, New World decided to acquire WBRC and WGHP and then place them in a trust for sale to another company. The year began with the acquisition of Argyle Television (formerly Times-Mirror Broadcasting, and partially related to Argyle Television Holdings II, which merged with Hearst Broadcasting to form Hearst-Argyle Television in 1997).
In Boston, where New World owned WSBK-TV, Fox was already affiliated with WFXT, a station it would later reacquire. That company would eventually be the News Corporation, who purchased the two stations in 1995. Less than a month after the Citicasters acquisition, and in the wake of Fox s acquisition of the rights to National Football League games (announced some time earlier), News Corporation (Fox s parent company) made a deal with New World which moved the Fox affiliations to most of New World s stations. Three New World stations were not included in the Fox deal.
television network. Although effectively defunct, it, along with various regional subsidiaries (i.e. Also, New World acquired the remainder of Genesis Entertainment, which gave New World television distribution capabilities as well as production. In 1995, New World sold WSBK-TV in Boston to Viacom.
The television station group was originally composed of: A number of major deals involved New World in 1994, including one which would change the face of American broadcasting.
