Conglomerate Behind Bay Area Cable TV
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The Conglomerate Bay Area Cable Corporate Other Media Franchisers Systems Background Holdings SF (21,000 subscribers), Sausalito. Tiburon, Mill 3nd largest franchiser nationwide, 255,000 sub- Former CBS subsidiary ; largest cable owner in Viacom International Valley, Corte Madera, Ross, San Anselmo, San scribers ; major syndicator, CBS programming northern California Rafael . Fairfax, Larkspur, Woodacre, Homestead Valley, Marinwood, Santa Venetia, Terra Linda Petaluma, Crockett, Pinole, West Pittsburg. Pitts- burg . Antioch, Dublin, Livermore, Pleasanton SF (never developed), South SF, unincorporated SF Chronicle; 19th largest franchiser nationwide ; Chronicle owners involved with Pacific Lighting Corp ., Chronicle Publishing areas of San Mateo County, San Mateo, Belmont, KRON-TV ; cable systems in Chico and Monterey Allied Properties, Crocker Bank, PG&E, PT&T and Company San Carlos, Redwood City, Concord, Clayton, 60,000 acres of California land Contra Costa County (with Newhall Land and Farming Co .) Gulf and Western Berkeley, Richmond, Contra Costa County 21 cable systems in California and Florida Paramount Pictures, Desilu Productions (Athena Communications) Oakland, Piedmont . Milpitas, Newark, Los Gatos Largest franchiser nationwide, 640 .000 subscribers ; Ownership battle between Jack Kent Coolie with Teleprompter pan-owner Howard Hughes runs microwave trans- 16.5%, Howard Hughes with 5% mission, communications satellite corps ., video programming network Morgan Murphy Trust Daly City, Brisbane, Burlingame, Pacifica, Half TV/radio in Spokane, Wash .; TV in Madison, Wis., Newspaper-baud media conglomerate incorporated Moon Bay, El Granada, Miramar, Fremont Yakima and Kennewick, Wash. ; able systems in Wisconsin (The Evening Telegram) (The Evening Telegram) in Wisconsin San Pablo, Albany, Kensington, Benicia, TV/radio in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Division of RKO General, a wholly-owned subsidiary Cablecom-General Woodside, Portola Valley, Santa Rosa Detroit and Memphis; TV in Hartford, Conn . ; of General Tire and Rubber Co . ; Video Independent radio in SF and Washington, D .C . ; 10th largest Theatres franchiser nationwide, 150,000 subscribers Conglomerate behind Bay Area cable TV Foote, Cone & Menlo Park, East Palo Alto, San Mateo County, Cable systems in California, Colorado, with FC & B is a major ad agency, 16th largest in broadcast Belding Cablevision Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County 30,000 subscribers billings LVO Cable, Inc . Hayward, San Leandro, Union City 27 cable systems In Texas and the Southwest ; Owned by Livingston Oil Co ., Tulsa, Okla, United Video, Inc. ; KHC Microwave ; 8O% of Vue-Sonics (17 systems in Illinois) ; 50% of Eastern Shore CATV (4 systems in Delaware and Maryland) ; option to purchase General Communications, Inc. Millbrae, San Mateo, Belmont, Foster City, 20th largest franchiser nationwide, 52,000 sub- Wholly-owned subsidiary of Kaufman and Broad, Nation Wide San Carlos, Redwood City, Woodside, San scribers in California . Washington, and Oregon L .A .-based home construction company Cablevision Pablo, San Lorenzo, Santa Clara County Tele Communications Vallejo 5th largest franchiser nationwide, with 68 cable Co-owns Vallejo system with Gibson Publications ; systems owner of newspapers in Vallejo and Martinez Lafayette, unincorporated areas of Alamo, Dan- 2nd largest franchiser nationwide . 264,000 Denver-based multiple cable system owner American TV and ville, Diablo, Moraga, Orinda, Rheem Valley, subscribers Communications San Ramon Valley, Walnut Creek Novato, Ignacio . Loma Verde, part of Marin 47 cable systems; major holdings in Northwest Based in Eugene, Ore . ; recently acquired 40 cable Storer Communications County United States systems from General Telephone and Electronics Walnut Creek 37 cable systems ; TV receivers and equipment CATV subsidiary of General Electric Gill Industries Rohnert Park, Cotati, Sebastopol, St . Helena, TV/radio in Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland; TV in Newspaper-based media conglomerate with head- Carl M. Williams Calistoga, Yountville Sonoma Atlanta, Milwaukee, Boston ; radio in Miami, quarters in L .A. L .A ., New York ; 16th largest cable owner Liberty Television, Inc . San Jose KNTV, San Jose Headed by Allen T . Gilliland, owner of KNTV Martinez, El Cerrito, North Lafayette, Orinda, Cable franchises in Colorado, Wyoming, Calif . Individual multiple cable system operator; investments General Electric Pleasant Hill, Contra Costa County, southern in cable industry trade journals Alameda County, Castro Valley Cablevision.