What if Taft acquired Loew's in 1959?

## Changes

* Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer would've been owned by Taft from 1959 to 1986, Turner from 1986 to 1996, TimeWarner from 1996 to 2001, AT&T from 2001 to 2022, and Samsung since 2022.
* It would've formed Children's Television Workshop in 1968.
* MGM would've still distributed its own movies from 1996 to 2008.
	+ It would've also been operated separately until 2008.
	+ MGM Home Entertainment would've continued to distribute it's own content on physical media from 2005 to 2008.
		- Video deals with Sony, Fox or Universal would've not happened.
		- Warner Bros. would've hung on to MHE's distribution arm.
	+ Turner Program Service would've been renamed to MGM Television Distribution in 1996.
		- It would've been folded into The WB Television Distribution in 2008.
	+ Warner Bros. would've taken over Overseas distribution in 2000 rather than 20th Century Fox.
		- 20th Century Fox would've distributed Lionsgate's films overseas from 2000 to 2006 instead.
* Taft would've acquired Transamerica in 1981.
	+ MGM/UA brand would've still happened.
	+ United Artists would've remained open.
		- Magnet Releasing would've not existed, having their content produced by UA.
	+ New Line Cinema's 1994 logo would've remained, but in 2011 style.
		- A Remastered rendition of the logo would've debuted in 2022 to celebrate the 55th Anniversary of NLC.
	+ United Artists would've made the sequels to *The Secret of NIMH* and *All Dogs go to Heaven* rather than MGM.
* Both Turner Entertainment and Magnolia Pictures would've not existed, having their content produced by MGM.
	+ All *Tom and Jerry* content would've been continued by MGM Animation.
	+ Turner Pictures have it's logo used by Picturehouse Films until 2005.
	+ Turner Feature Animation would've been named MGM Feature Animation.
		- Both *The Pagemaster* and *Cats Don't Dance* would've been produced by MGM.
			* Both would've performed better at the box office.
		- All of the animated features (such as (the three Hanna-Barbera feature films, *Tom and Jerry: The Movie*, and the Cartoon Network films) would've been produced by MGM Animation
	+ Turner Entertainment's fanfare would've been used in MGM's 1986, 2008 and 2012 logos.
	+ Magnolia Pictures' logo would've been used by MGM Flower Films, a friend studio of MGM.
* Orion Pictures, American International Pictures, New Line Cinema, and Filmways Pictures would've been under United Artists.
* Cannon Films, LightWorkers Media, Samuel Goldwyn Films and G2 Films would've been under MGM.
* MGM/UA Home Video's 1993 fanfare would've been used in the 1998 MGM Home Entertainment logo.
	+ The 1998 MHE logo would've been in CGI.
* MGM would've used Turner Home Entertainment's FBI Warning from 1992 to 1996.
	+ Said THE warning would've been continued by Warner Bros. from 1996 to 2004, leading MGM to use Time-Life Video's warning from 1996 to 2004.
* MGM would've continued to be located on 10202 West Washington Boulevard, Culver City, California, United States from 1986 to 1996.
	+ MGM would've stayed headquartered on 10202 West Washington Boulevard, Culver City, California, United States from 1992 to 1996.
	+ Both locations would've been sold to Columbia TriStar in 1996 due to TimeWarner buying Turner.