Multimedia Entertainment

Multimedia Entertainment, Inc.
Formerly
  • Avco Broadcasting Corporation Syndicated Division (1968–1972)
  • Avco Program Sales (1972–1976)
  • Multimedia Program Sales (1976–1977)
  • Multimedia Program Productions (1977–1981)
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryTelevision
Founded1968; 56 years ago (1968)
DefunctFebruary 1997; 27 years ago (1997-02)
FateAcquired by and folded into Universal Television
SuccessorNBCUniversal Syndication Studios
Services
Parent
Divisions
  • Multimedia Broadcasting (1989–1995)
  • Multimedia Motion Pictures (1991–1995)

Multimedia Entertainment, Inc. (formerly Avco Broadcasting Corporation Syndicated Division, Avco Program Sales, Multimedia Program Sales and Multimedia Program Productions) was an American television production/distribution company originally formed in 1968.

History

The firm was launched, first as Avco Broadcasting Corporation Syndicated Division, and later in 1972 as Avco Program Sales in 1968 as a television production/distribution company owned by the Cincinnati-based Avco Corporation. Another company called Avco Embassy Television (which was sold to Norman Lear and Jerry Perenchio in 1982 and folded into Embassy Telecommunications) was originally responsible for television distribution of the Embassy Pictures film library. In addition, Avco Program Sales concentrated on its own in-house productions. One of its first programs was The Phil Donahue Show, which was launched nationally in 1970. Avco Embassy is the original syndicator of the Phil Donahue Show, before the formation of Avco Program Sales in 1972.[1]

In 1971, Avco Broadcasting Corporation's syndicated unit teamed up with cartoon producer Hanna-Barbera Productions to launch two holiday specials for Thanksgiving and Christmas by 1972.[2] The following year, by 1973, Avco Broadcasting and Meredith Corporation teamed up to produce nine family-oriented television specials for syndication (including the Meredith and Avco stations) by way of its Avco Program Sales division.[3]

In 1976, Multimedia, Inc., a Greenville, South Carolina-based newspaper publisher and broadcaster, purchased the production and syndication rights to The Phil Donahue Show and the regionally distributed Bob Braun Show from Avco, which was breaking up its media interests. Multimedia also acquired WLWT in Cincinnati, Avco's flagship station, and initially based its syndication division there. The division was first named as Multimedia Program Sales,[4] then as Multimedia Program Productions in 1977,[5] before landing on its Multimedia Entertainment name in 1983.[6] For the next two decades Multimedia Entertainment specialized in audience-participation daytime talk shows with Donahue as its flagship program.

In 1981, Multimedia acquired Show Biz Inc., syndicator of country music television programs such as Pop! Goes the Country.[7] Multimedia also received an agreement with Jim Owens Productions to distribute country-based programs.[8] The company later used Multimedia's St. Louis station KSDK as launching pad for The Sally Jessy Raphael Show in 1983, and WLWT as the original base for The Jerry Springer Show in 1991. Multimedia Entertainment also created short-lived TV vehicles for conservative talk radio hosts Rush Limbaugh and Dennis Prager. During this period Bob Turner, a veteran media executive who would later serve as a U.S. congressional representative from New York, served as the company's CEO.

On September 17, 1991, Multimedia acquired assets of Carolco's television distribution unit Orbis Communications. Included were first-run syndication rights to The Joker's Wild and John Davidson's hosted version of The $100,000 Pyramid and TV movies.[9] The Carolco Television Productions unit has been became Multimedia Television Productions, which was later known as Multimedia Motion Pictures, and Robert Turner has joined the studio as president.[10] Neil Russell was then served as president of the studio several months later.[11]

Multimedia Entertainment was included in the sale of Multimedia to the Gannett Company in 1995. Gannett then sold its production/syndication arm to Universal Television in 1996 and a year later it was folded into Universal Television Enterprises in February.[12] In 1998, Universal Television including the USA Networks were sold to Barry Diller and became part of Studios USA.

The rights to the Multimedia Entertainment name were retained by Gannett, and were transferred to Tegna after Gannett split into two companies in 2015; it is now used for the Tegna subsidiary that holds the license for WGRZ in Buffalo, New York (which Gannett had acquired in a swap for WLWT in 1997, shortly after the Multimedia acquisition), while KARE, KPNX, KUSA, KTVD, WTLV, and WJXX operate as Multimedia Holdings Corporation.[citation needed]

Tegna, Multimedia's successor, re-entered the syndication business in 2017 with the series Daily Blast Live and Sister Circle.

Syndicated programs

This is a listing of programs which were either produced or distributed by Multimedia Entertainment:

Films

  • Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood (a.k.a. The River Pirates) (1988)
  • Murder Between Friends (filmed 1993, first broadcast January 10, 1994)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Program notes" (PDF). Broadcasting. August 25, 1969. p. 46. Retrieved October 10, 2023.
  2. ^ "Program notes" (PDF). Broadcasting. February 15, 1971. p. 47. Retrieved October 10, 2023.
  3. ^ "Joint ventures" (PDF). Broadcasting. January 8, 1973. p. 31. Retrieved October 10, 2023.
  4. ^ "TV programmers" (PDF). Broadcasting. March 15, 1976. p. 78. Retrieved October 10, 2023.
  5. ^ "Fates & Fortunes" (PDF). Broadcasting. April 4, 1977. p. 88. Retrieved October 10, 2023.
  6. ^ "Multimedia Program Productions is now Multimedia Entertainment" (PDF). Broadcasting. October 24, 1983. p. 47. Retrieved October 10, 2023.
  7. ^ "The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee on April 17, 1981 · Page 11". Newspapers.com. 17 April 1981. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
  8. ^ "Monitor" (PDF). Broadcasting. 1981-02-16. Retrieved 2021-10-01.
  9. ^ "AP News Archive" Multimedia Buys Television Programming Assets apnewsarchive.com, Retrieved on October 19, 2013
  10. ^ "Multimedia movement" (PDF). Broadcasting. 1991-04-22. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  11. ^ "Russell to head Multimedia long-form shop" (PDF). Broadcasting. 1991-10-28. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  12. ^ Miller, Nick. "Gannett Sells Talk Shows", The Cincinnati Post, November 25, 1996.
  13. ^ "The Dennis Prager Show". Retrieved 19 April 2018 – via www.imdb.com.
  14. ^ "My First Swedish Bombshell". 28 November 1984. Retrieved 19 April 2018 – via www.imdb.com.

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