RKO General Inc. (previously General Teleradio Inc. and RKO Teleradio Pictures Inc.) was an American broadcasting company that, from 1952 through 1991, served as the main holding company for the noncore businesses of the General Tire …

WOR (710 kHz) is a 50,000-watt class A clear-channel AM radio station owned by iHeartMedia and licensed to New York, New York. The station airs a mix of local and syndicated talk radio shows, primarily from co-owned Premiere Networks, including The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Sean Hannity Show, and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory.

2023年12月28日 · It was in that environment that RKO General Broadcasting launched its new WOR-FM (98.7Mhz) “Hot 100” format on July 30, 1966. The name is deceiving because, in fact, it was the first progressive rock station in the country.

2023年10月25日 · From 1983 until 1987, RKO General, Inc. was WOR-TV’s ownership for movies, sports, news and entertainment. RKO General (a.k.a. RKO Television) changed WOR-TV Channel 9's Movie Showcases, taking viewers from the popular 4:30 Movie's "Riviera Affair" theme to creating more attractive Movie Showcase …

2023年10月25日 · In 1987, after an administrative law judge found RKO to be unfit as a television licensee due to deceptive practices dating back to the 1960s, the FCC (Federal Communications Commision) forced RKO to resign from their two television stations WOR-TV and its Los Angeles sister station KHJ-TV.

2025年1月22日 · RKO Television was the identity used by RKO General in its television assets, most notably WOR-TV (now WWOR-TV) in Secaucus, New Jersey (also serving New York City) and KHJ-TV (now KCAL-TV) in Los Angeles. RKO General became infamous for dishonest practices and corporate misconduct, causing them to be in near constant investigation starting in ...

Background: By the late '80s, RKO General was forced by the FCC to exit broadcasting due to an accounting scandal. The newly renamed WWOR was initially owned by Universal Studios, and sold to Pinelands after Matsushi-ta purchased Universal's parent company, MCA.

WOR-FM was now a Drake-Chenault radio station just like most of the other RKO properties. It was a Top 40 format which also featured a significant number of oldies (which separated it from WABC and WMCA).

1984年9月17日 · Radio station WOR, which set up housekeeping in Bamberger's department store in Newark in 1922, is cleaning out its attic, which is filled with 60 years of American history on tapes and paper,...

2021年4月21日 · RKO owned channel 9 and it was based in New York, but after some legal wrangling, RKO sought to move the station's license and studios to New Jersey, making it the only commercial station in that state. RKO would sell the station to MCA in 1986.