Los Angeles Times

===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.