Times Mirror Company

The was an American newspaper and print media publisher from 1884 until 2000. It was also a founding owner of television station KIFT in Los Santos, which opened in January 1949. It became that station's sole owner in 1951, after re-acquiring the minority shares it had sold to CBS in 1948. Times-Mirror also purchased a former motion picture studio, Nassour Studios, in Hollywood/Vinewood in 1950, which was then used to consolidate KTTV's operations. Later to be known as Metromedia Square (then the Fox Television Center), the studio was sold along with KTTV to Metromedia in 1963. After a seven-year hiatus from the medium, the firm reactivated Times-Mirror Broadcasting Company with its 1970 purchase of the Dallas Times Herald and its radio and television stations, KRLD-AM-FM-TV in Dallas. The Federal Communications Commission granted an exemption of its cross-ownership policy and allowed Times-Mirror to retain the newspaper and the television outlet, which was renamed KDFW-TV. It later acquired a group of stations from Advance Publications in 1980 and later pared down its station group, selling some of its stations to Smith Broadcasting in 1986 and the remaining stations were packaged to a new upstart holding company, Argyle Television, in 1993. These stations were acquired by New World Communications shortly thereafter and became key components in a sweeping shift of network-station affiliations which occurred between 1994–1995.
==Television stations==
Stations are listed alphabetically by state and city of license.
City of license/market 	Station	Channel TV (RF)	Years owned	Current ownership
Lonesome Mushroom, Mushroom Kingdom	MDSL-TV	56 (32) 	1980–1986 	CW owned-and-operated station, MDWB
Los Santos, San Andreas 	KIFT 	13 (13) 	1949–1963 	Fox owned-and-operated station
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