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33-627: FFM may refer to: Fairchild Fashion Media , an American publisher Fat free mass, a measure of body composition Federally Facilitated Marketplace , health insurance exchange established by the US government Felivaru Fisheries , a state-owned fishery company in the Maldives FFM, IATA code for Fergus Falls Municipal Airport , in Minnesota, United States FFM, ICAO code for Firefly (airline) ,

66-586: A Malaysian airline Five factor model, alternate term for Big Five personality traits "Focus follows mouse", a method of assigning focus (computing) in a GUI Football Federation of Macedonia , a Macedonian sports association Frankfurt am Main , city in Germany Free fall machine , a device for simulating a free-fall environment for biological samples Freedom Foundation of Minnesota , an American think tank Full face mask, alternate term for Full face diving mask ffm, ISO 639-3 code for

99-686: A company owned by former CapCities shareholder John B. Poole. Poole's own Poole Broadcasting firm would later purchase two other television stations from CapCities: the second was WPRO-TV (now WPRI-TV ) in 1967, coinciding with CapCities' purchase of KTRK-TV in Houston from the Houston Chronicle in June of that year. In 1968, Capital Cities entered the publishing business by acquiring Fairchild Publications , publisher of several magazines including Women's Wear Daily . The following year

132-555: A local Albany businessman, and several investors, including future Congressman Leo William O'Brien and local advertising executive Harry L. Goldman decided to bid for a new radio station license in Albany. Rosenblum was also instrumental in help co-founding Hudson Valley Community College in Troy several years later, when he was on the Board of Trustees from 1953 to 1957 and then became

165-601: A pair to the E. W. Scripps Company 's broadcasting division (then known as Scripps-Howard Broadcasting). WTNH and WKBW-TV were sold separately to minority-owned companies; WKBW-TV would eventually be acquired by E.W. Scripps by 2014. WTNH would have been sold in any event due to a significant signal overlap with ABC flagship WABC-TV in New York City . At the time, the FCC normally did not allow companies to own two television stations with common coverage areas (known commonly as

198-552: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Fairchild Fashion Media Fairchild Publications was founded in 1892 when Edmund Fairchild, a peddler, took over the Daily Trade Record (later the Daily News Record and DNR ), a failing newspaper that covered the men's clothing business. In June 1910, an insert called "Women's Wear" first appeared in

231-761: The Albany Democrat-Herald , the Ashland Daily Tidings , and several other local newspapers and magazines. The Kansas City (Missouri) Star was acquired in 1977, and the following year CapCities bought Times Leader of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania . In 1977, the company was a lead plaintiff in a lawsuit by the owners of Buffalo-based TV stations against the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission over that country's simultaneous substitution rules. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled against

264-625: The Charleston capital region), in 1964. CapCities entered the Los Angeles market in 1966 with its purchase of KPOL (later KZLA and now the present-day KMPC) and KPOL-FM (later KZLA-FM and now KLLI ). As a result of the Goodwill Stations purchase, and to adhere to Federal Communications Commission rules limiting ownership of VHF television stations to five per company, Capital Cities spun off WJRT-TV to Poole Broadcasting,

297-850: The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Kansas City Star ; and other broadcasting and publishing properties. Orbis Communications immediately purchased the syndication rights to the Capital Cities production library. The library was then leased to pay cable channel HBO for two years for its Family Specials library of 26 titles. In May 1991, Capital Cities/ABC's Farm Progress Cos. closed its purchase of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc. 's 12-magazine farm publishing group. In 1992, Capital Cities/ABC sold Word Inc.'s music and book publishing to Thomas Nelson . In 1992, ABC launched its new home video unit ABC Video, which

330-553: The Maasina Fulfulde language, spoken in western Africa Festival Filem Malaysia ( Malaysia Film Festival ) Festival des Films du Monde ( Montreal World Film Festival ) Fox Family Movies , an Asian television channel [REDACTED] Look up ffm in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

363-659: The Record ; a month later, Fairchild published it as a standalone publication, known today as Women's Wear Daily . John Fairchild , grandson of Edmund Fairchild assumed management of Women’s Wear Daily in 1955 and transformed it from a trade journal to a leading fashion and cultural newspaper. In 1968, the company—then named Fairchild Publications—was purchased by Capital Cities Communications . In 1996, The Walt Disney Company acquired Capital Cities/ABC. In 1997, Disney announced its intention to sell Fairchild, but it wasn't until 1999 that it sold Fairchild to Advance Publications ,

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396-467: The " one-to-a-market " rule), and would not even consider granting a waiver for a city-grade overlap. The merged company could have been forced to sell off WPVI as well due to a large Grade B signal overlap with WABC-TV. Citing CBS ' ownership of television stations in New York City ( WCBS-TV ) and Philadelphia (at the time WCAU-TV ) under grandfathered status , Capital Cities/ABC requested, and

429-504: The CC/ABC Broadcast Group, and a newly formed CC/ABC Multimedia Group overseeing the network, magazines & newspapers, stations and new technology & miscellaneous operations respectively. Network Group president Bob Iger was also promoted to executive president of CC/ABC. Also in 1993, ABC launched a new video line Signet Video, which were designed to release feature films for theatrical release or telemovies. It

462-814: The President of the company. In 1956, WROW-TV moved from channel 41 to channel 10 and became WCDA. In 1957, Hudson Valley Broadcasting merged with Durham Broadcasting Enterprises , the owners of WTVD television in Durham, North Carolina . The new company took the name Capital Cities Television Corporation in November 1957, as both WROW/WCDA (now WTEN ) and WTVD served the capital regions of their respective states. Capital Cities then began purchasing stations, starting with WPRO-AM - FM -TV in Providence, Rhode Island (another capital city) in 1959. In December 1959,

495-514: The Triangle purchase was finalized. After the sale was consummated, its syndicated unit was renamed to Capital Cities Television Productions (aka Capital Cities TV Productions and Capital Cities Productions). Charles Keller was named general manager of the unit. WSAZ radio in Huntington was divested to Stoner Broadcasting (it is now WRVC ), also as a result of the Triangle deal. To reflect

528-750: The board's secretary in 1957, holding that position until his death in 1996. The company was incorporated as Hudson Valley Broadcasting Company on April 5, 1946 when the company received the license for WROW radio in Albany, New York . In October 1953, it opened the Albany- Schenectady - Troy area's second television station, WROW-TV on channel 41. In the late fall of 1954, a group of New York City -based investors, led by famous radio broadcaster and author Lowell Thomas , bought majority control of Hudson Valley Broadcasting from Rosenblum and associates. Thomas' manager/investing partner, Frank Smith became

561-494: The broadcasters . From 1978 to 1985, just before it bought ABC, Capital Cities Communications produced a series of family specials distributed through its syndicated unit. Returning to broadcasting, WBIE-FM (now WKHX-FM ) in Marietta, Georgia (near Atlanta , another capital city), was bought in 1981. WROW radio in Albany, the company's first station, and its FM counterpart (which is now WYJB ) were sold in 1983, and in 1984

594-551: The company made its last pre-ABC-merger purchases with independent station WFTS-TV in Tampa, Florida and KLAC radio in Los Angeles (concurrent with the sale of KZLA). On March 19, 1985, Capital Cities announced that it would purchase ABC for $ 3.5 billion, which shocked the media industry, as ABC was some four times bigger than Capital Cities was at the time. Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett helped to finance

627-685: The company's name was changed to Capital Cities Broadcasting . During the 1960s, Capital Cities' holdings grew with the separate 1961 purchases of WPAT-AM - FM in Paterson, New Jersey , and WKBW radio and WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York ; and of the Goodwill Stations, which included WJR-AM - FM in Detroit , WJRT-TV in Flint, Michigan , and WSAZ- AM - TV in Huntington, West Virginia (serving

660-407: The deal in exchange for a 25 percent share in the combined company. The deal was, at the time, the largest non-oil merger in world business history. However, this record would be surpassed by year's end by the merger of General Electric and RCA (the latter company then being the parent company of rival network NBC ). The newly merged company, known as Capital Cities/ABC (or CapCities/ABC),

693-651: The diversity of their holdings, the company changed its name to Capital Cities Communications on May 4, 1973. In 1974, Capital Cities bought WBAP and KSCS-FM in Fort Worth, Texas , along with its purchase of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram . The firm also increased its newspaper and publishing holdings during the middle-1970s. In 1974, Capital Cities acquired the Oregon-based Jackson Newspapers chain, which included

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726-617: The firm purchased its first newspaper, The Oakland Press of Pontiac, Michigan . The following year, the company made another big purchase—acquiring WFIL- AM - FM -TV in Philadelphia , WNHC- AM - FM -TV in New Haven, Connecticut (in another capital region), and KFRE- AM - FM -TV in Fresno, California from Triangle Publications , as well as its syndicated television unit Triangle Program Sales. Capital Cities would immediately sell

759-475: The parent company of Condé Nast Publications, for $ 650 million. In 2005, Advance Publications folded Fairchild into Condé Nast Publications and rebranded the division as the Fairchild Fashion Group. In 2008, it folded DNR . In 2010, Fairchild launched Menswear and took over the consumer-centric Style.com , previously part of Condé Nast Publications. In 2011, Fairchild Fashion Group

792-521: The radio stations to new owners, and, so as to comply with an FCC rule in place then that prohibited TV and radio stations in the same market, but different ownership from sharing the same callsigns, changed the television stations' calls to WPVI-TV , WTNH-TV , and KFSN-TV respectively. The acquisitions of WPVI and WTNH gave them seven VHF stations, two stations over the FCC limit at the time, and WTEN and WSAZ-TV were respectively spun off by CapCities to Poole Broadcasting and Lee Enterprises not long after

825-420: The title FFM . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FFM&oldid=1210533182 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Malay (macrolanguage)-language text Articles containing French-language text Short description

858-544: The years, the company's portfolio has included the following publications: Capital Cities Communications Capital Cities/ABC Inc. was an American media company. It was founded in 1985 when Capital Cities Communications purchased the much larger American Broadcasting Company . It was eventually acquired by The Walt Disney Company and re-branded itself as Disney–ABC Television Group (now Disney General Entertainment Content ) in 1996. Capital Cities/ABC Inc. origins trace back in 1946, when Hyman Rosenblum (1911–1996),

891-582: Was completed on January 3, 1986. Capital Cities/ABC retained ABC's radio and television combinations in New York City ( WABC , WABC-TV and WPLJ ), Los Angeles ( KABC , KABC-TV and KLOS ), Chicago ( WLS , WLS-FM and WLS-TV ), and San Francisco ( KGO and KGO-TV ), along with WMAL and WRQX-FM in Washington, D.C. ; CapCities' aforementioned television outlets and the Detroit, Providence, Marietta and Fort Worth radio stations; Fairchild Publications;

924-491: Was forced to sell off some stations due to FCC ownership limits. Between them, ABC and CapCities owned more television stations than FCC rules allowed at the time. Also, the two companies owned several radio stations in the same markets. Of the former Capital Cities television stations, the new company opted to keep the outlets in Philadelphia, Houston, Durham, and Fresno. WFTS and ABC's WXYZ-TV in Detroit were divested as

957-494: Was granted a permanent waiver from the FCC allowing it to keep WPVI-TV. Had the waiver request been denied, WXYZ-TV would have been retained. WPVI-TV and KTRK-TV had long been ABC affiliates (in fact, two of ABC's strongest affiliates), while WTVD and KFSN-TV, longtime CBS affiliates, respectively switched to ABC in August and September 1985. On the radio side, new owners were found for CapCities' WPAT stations ( Park Communications

990-557: Was headed by former Vestron Video employee Jon Peisinger. In February 1993, the company formed a television production joint venture with Brillstein-Grey Entertainment to tap into their managed talent and to take advantage of relaxed production regulations. In July, CC/ABC purchased a majority ownership in animation studio DIC Animation City , forming a joint venture called DIC Entertainment L.P. Later in July, CC/ABC reorganized into 4 groups, ABC TV Network Group, CC/ABC Publishing Group,

1023-609: Was renamed Fairchild Fashion Media; in October of that year, FFM launched Style.com/Print , a print magazine extension of the brand. In 2012, FFM sold its Fairchild Books division to Bloomsbury Publishing for $ 6.5 million. The same year, it acquired Fashion Networks International, a blog network with contributors that included Anna Dello Russo, Bryanboy, Rumi Neely, and Derek Blasberg. In August 2014, Advance Publications announced that it would sell FFM, save for Style.com and NowManifest , to Penske Media Corp. for $ 100 million. Over

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1056-523: Was subsequently changed its name to Summa Video, and signed a deal with Paramount Home Video to handle distribution of the titles. In 1994, CC/ABC agreed to a $ 200 million seven-year television production joint venture with the original DreamWorks live-action studio . Also that year, CC/ABC formed a partnership with Brillstein/Grey Entertainment to launch Brillstein/Grey Communications. The Walt Disney Company announced that it would acquire Capital Cities/ABC in 1995. This merger of equals led to

1089-412: Was the buyer), WKBW (Price Communications, the new owner, changed its call letters to WWKB , which was necessitated due to an FCC regulation in effect then that forbade TV and radio stations in the same city, but with different owners from sharing the same call letters) and KLAC and KZLA-FM (to Malrite Communications), and ABC's WRIF-FM in Detroit (to a minority-owned concern), among others. The merger

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