Los Angeles Times

==Other media==
===Book publishing ===
The Times Mirror Corporation has also owned a number of book publishers over the years, including [[New American Library]], [[C.V. Mosby]], [[Harry N. Abrams]], [[Matthew Bender]], and [[Jeppesen]].<ref name=NAL />

In 1960, Times Mirror of Los Angeles bought the book publisher [[New American Library]], known for publishing affordable paperback reprints of classics and other scholarly works.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Korda |first1=Michael |title=Another life: a memoir of other people |url=https://archive.org/details/anotherlifememoi00kord |url-access=registration |date=1999 |publisher=Random House |location=New York |isbn=0679456597 |page=[https://archive.org/details/anotherlifememoi00kord/page/103 103] |edition=1st}}</ref> The NAL continued to operate autonomously from New York and within the Mirror Company. In 1983, Odyssey Partners and Ira J. Hechler bought NAL from the Times Mirror Company for over $50&nbsp;million.<ref name=NAL>{{cite news |last1=McDowell |first1=Edwin |title=Times Mirror is Selling New American Library |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/08/arts/times-mirror-is-selling-new-american-library.html |access-date=October 3, 2015 |work=The New York Times |date=August 11, 1983}}</ref>

In 1967, Times Mirror acquired [[C.V. Mosby Company]], a professional publisher and merged it over the years with several other professional publishers including Resource Application, Inc., Year Book Medical Publishers, Wolfe Publishing Ltd., PSG Publishing Company, B.C. Decker, Inc., among others. Eventually in 1998 Mosby was sold to Harcourt Brace & Company to form the Elsevier Health Sciences group.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mosby Company History |url=http://www1.us.elsevierhealth.com/HHS/Help/historyMosby.html |publisher=Elsevier |access-date=October 3, 2015}}</ref>

===Broadcasting activities===
{{Infobox company
| name = Times-Mirror Broadcasting Company
| logo = 
| fate = Acquired by Argyle Television (sold to [[New World Communications]] in 1994)
| former_name = KTTV, Inc. (1947–1963)
| type = [[Private company|Private]]
| foundation = {{Start date|1947|12}}
| defunct = 1993
| hq_location_city = [[Los Angeles]], [[California]]
| hq_location_country = [[United States]]
| industry = [[Terrestrial television|Broadcast television]]<br>[[Mass media|Media]]
| area_served = [[File:Flag of the United States.svg|22px]] [[United States]]
| products = [[Broadcast television|Broadcast]] and [[cable television]]
| parent = The Times-Mirror Company (1947–1963, 1970–1993)<br>Silent (1963–1970)
}}
The Times-Mirror Company was a founding owner of television station [[KTTV]] in [[Los Angeles]], which opened in January 1949. It became that station's sole owner in 1951, after re-acquiring the minority shares it had sold to [[CBS]] in 1948. Times-Mirror also purchased a former motion picture studio, [[Nassour Studios]], in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles, California|Hollywood]] in 1950, which was then used to consolidate KTTV's operations. Later to be known as [[Metromedia Square]], the studio was sold along with KTTV to [[Metromedia]] in 1963.

After a seven-year hiatus from the medium, the firm reactivated '''Times-Mirror Broadcasting Company''' with its 1970 purchase of the ''[[Dallas Times Herald]]'' and its radio and television stations, [[KRLD (AM)|KRLD-AM]]-[[KZPS|FM]]-TV in [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Storch |first=Charles |title=Times Mirror Selling Dallas Times Herald |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-06-27/business/8602150886_1_john-buzzetta-gloucester-county-times-dallas-times-herald |access-date=June 26, 2012 |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=June 27, 1986}}</ref> The [[Federal Communications Commission]] granted an exemption of its [[Concentration of media ownership|cross-ownership]] policy and allowed Times-Mirror to retain the newspaper and the television outlet, which was renamed [[KDFW-TV]].

Times-Mirror Broadcasting later acquired [[KTBC-TV]] in [[Austin, Texas]] in 1973;<ref>[https://www.webcitation.org/6Z9oj5TPV?url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/72-OCR/1972-09-04-BC-OCR-Page-0006.pdf "Johnson family sells Austin TV."] ''[[Broadcasting and Cable|Broadcasting]]'', September 4, 1972, pg. 6.</ref> and in 1980 purchased a group of stations owned by [[Advance Publications|Newhouse Newspapers]]: WAPI-TV (now [[WVTM-TV]]) in [[Birmingham, Alabama]]; [[KTVI]] in [[St. Louis]]; WSYR-TV (now [[WSTM-TV]]) in [[Syracuse, New York]] and its satellite station WSYE-TV (now [[WETM-TV]]) in [[Elmira, New York]]; and WTPA-TV (now [[WHTM-TV]]) in [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]].<ref>[https://www.webcitation.org/6Z9oj5zuX?url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/80-OCR/1980-03-31-BC-OCR-Page-0030.pdf "Times Mirror's deal for Newhouse's TVs gets FCC approval."] ''Broadcasting'', March 31, 1980, pg. 30.</ref>  The company also entered the field of cable television, servicing the [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]] and [[San Diego, California|San Diego]] areas, amongst others. They were originally titled '''Times-Mirror Cable''', and were later renamed to '''Dimension Cable Television'''. Similarly, they also attempted to enter the pay-TV market, with the [[Spotlight (TV channel)|Spotlight]] movie network; it was not successful and was quickly shut down. The cable systems were sold in the mid-1990s to [[Cox Communications]].

Times-Mirror also pared its station group down, selling off the Syracuse, Elmira and Harrisburg properties in 1986.<ref>[https://www.webcitation.org/6Z9oj83AU?url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/85-OCR/BC-1985-09-30-OCR-Page-0109.pdf "Changing hands: Proposed."] ''Broadcasting'', September 30, 1985, pg. 109.</ref> The remaining four outlets were packaged to a new upstart holding company, Argyle Television, in 1993.<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/93-OCR/BC-1993-03-22-OCR-Page-0007.pdf "Times Mirror set to sell four TV'."] {{webarchive |url=https://www.webcitation.org/6Z9oj6aQs?url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/93-OCR/BC-1993-03-22-OCR-Page-0007.pdf |date=June 9, 2015}} ''Broadcasting and Cable'', March 22, 1993, pg. 7.</ref> These stations were acquired by [[New World Communications]] shortly thereafter and became key components in [[1994 United States broadcast TV realignment|a sweeping shift of network-station affiliations which occurred between 1994 and 1995]].

==== Stations ====
{| class="wikitable"
|-
![[City of license]] / [[Media market|market]]
!Station
!Channel<br />[[Analog television|TV]] / ([[Digital terrestrial television|RF]])
!Years owned
!Current ownership status
|-
| [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]]
| '''[[WVTM-TV]]'''
| '''13 (13)'''
| 1980–1993
| '''[[NBC]]''' affiliate owned by [[Hearst Television]]
|-
| [[Los Angeles]]
| '''[[KTTV]]''' <sup>1</sup>
| '''11 (11)'''
| 1949–1963
| '''[[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]''' owned-and-operated '''([[O&O]])'''
|-
| [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]]
| '''[[KTVI]]'''
| '''2 (43)'''
| 1980–1993
| '''Fox''' affiliate owned by [[Nexstar Media Group]]
|-
| [[Elmira, New York]]
| '''[[WETM-TV]]'''
| '''18 (18)'''
| 1980–1986
| '''NBC''' affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
|-
| [[Syracuse, New York]]
| '''[[WSTM-TV]]'''
| '''3 (24)'''
| 1980–1986
| '''NBC''' affiliate owned by [[Sinclair Broadcast Group]]
|-
| [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania|Harrisburg]] - [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania|Lancaster]] -<br />[[Lebanon, Pennsylvania|Lebanon]] - [[York, Pennsylvania|York]]
| '''[[WHTM-TV]]'''
| '''27 (10)'''
| 1980–1986
| '''[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]''' affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
|-
| [[Austin, Texas]]
| '''[[KTBC-TV]]'''
| '''7 (7)'''
| 1973–1993
| '''Fox''' owned-and-operated '''(O&O)'''
|-
| [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] - [[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]]
| '''[[KDFW-TV]]''' <sup>2</sup>
| '''4 (35)'''
| 1970–1993
| '''Fox''' owned-and-operated '''(O&O)'''
|}

'''Notes''':
* <sup>1</sup> Co-owned with [[CBS]] until 1951 in a [[joint venture]] (51% owned by Times-Mirror, 49% owned by CBS);
* <sup>2</sup> Purchased along with [[KRLD (AM)|KRLD-AM]]-[[KZPS|FM]] as part of Times-Mirror's acquisition of the ''[[Dallas Times Herald]]''. Times-Mirror sold the radio stations to comply with FCC cross-ownership restrictions.