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History. 1939–1959. The Taft family's involvement in broadcasting began in 1939 as Radio Cincinnati, Inc., when the Cincinnati Times-Star purchased WKRC radio from CBS. [3] [4] In April 1949, Taft's first TV station, WKRC-TV in Cincinnati, began broadcasting. [5]
From the period spanning 1958 to 2000, Taft owned and operated Muzak* franchises in Houston, Tulsa and Phoenix, broadcasting to and providing service for over 5000 commercial accounts on a daily basis.
The company went through a long reorganization period starting in 1987 with its acquisition by Carl Lindner, Jr. and renamed Great American Broadcasting. Shortly after filing for bankruptcy in 1993, it became Citicasters and was, in 1999, acquired by Clear Channel Communications, which was renamed iHeartMedia in 2014.
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Founded. 1939. Defunct. 1999. Successor. iHeartMedia. Time Warner (acquired most Taft's animated library, including Hanna-Barbera) 21st Century Fox (some TV and radio stations library) National Amusements (some TV and radio stations) Headquarters. Cincinnati, Ohio. Industry. television and radio network. Source.
The Taft family's involvement in broadcasting began in 1939 as Radio Cincinnati, Inc., when the Cincinnati Times-Star purchased WKRC radio from CBS. [2] [3] In April 1949 Taft's first TV station, WKRC-TV in Cincinnati began broadcasting.
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May 21, 2024 · Background. Taft Broadcasting was active in some form or another from 1939, when the WKRC radio station was started in its home city of Cincinnati, Ohio, to 1996, when the company (by then having been renamed to Great American Broadcasting, then Citicasters) was acquired by Jacor Communications, which itself was acquired by ClearChannel in 1999.
