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MCA Television (commonly known as MCA TV and also known as MCA Television Limited) was founded in 1948, several years before parent MCA Inc.'s purchase of Decca Records (in 1959) and Universal Pictures (in 1962). For more than four decades, it was one of the most active syndicators of television programming.
MCA Inc. (originally an initialism for Music Corporation of America) was an American media conglomerate founded in 1924. Originally a talent agency with artists in the music business as clients, the company became a major force in the film industry, and later expanded into television production.
It also bought a TV station in New York City, WWOR-TV (renamed from WOR-TV), in 1987, from RKO General subsidiary of GenCorp, which was in the midst of a licensing scandal. In 1982, MCA decided to start out its video game unit, MCA Video Games, led by technicians of the MCA DiscoVision unit.
Based on the 1975 TV series of the same name by Spelling-Goldberg Productions and the 2003 film of the same name by Columbia Pictures: No Activity: 2017–2021: Paramount+: co-production with Funny or Die, Gary Sanchez Productions, Jungle Entertainment and Flight School Studio (season 4) 9JKL: 2017–2018: CBS: co-production with Liscolaide ...
With the December 4, 2019 merger of CBS and Viacom, the TV rights to Paramount's films were brought back to the now-combined Paramount Global. The company distributes television content from the libraries of CBS Studios, the King World Productions and certain HBO shows internationally the Rysher Entertainment library, the latter owned ...
MCA Television [6] attempted several branded TV packages in 1985 to 2001 including an ad hoc film network, a broadcast network and a few syndicated programming blocks. The company launched the Universal Pictures Debut Network, [7] [8] [9] an ad hoc film network with plans to launch in two stages beginning [10] [11] in September 1985. [12] [13]
WFOR-TV 4 / WBFS-TV 33 Miami–Fort Lauderdale, Florida; WTOG 44 St. Petersburg – Tampa, Florida; WUPA 69 Atlanta; WBBM-TV 2 Chicago; WBXI-CD 47 Indianapolis; WJZ-TV 13 Baltimore; WBZ-TV 4 / WSBK-TV 38 Boston; WWJ-TV 62 / WKBD-TV 50 Detroit / Windsor, Ontario; WCCO-TV 4 / KCCW-TV 12 Minneapolis–Saint Paul — Walker, Minnesota; WCBS-TV 2 ...
MCA TV International handled syndication of MCA TV's programs outside of the United States, but throughout 1987, MCA TV International, alongside Paramount International Television had inked an agreement with Chinese Central Television to offer 100 drama hours, which represented, was the largest license to date, and making it the two Hollywood ...