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Capital Cities/ABC Inc. was an American media company. It was founded in 1985 when Capital Cities Communications purchased the much larger American Broadcasting Company. It was eventually acquired by The Walt Disney Company and re-branded itself as Disney–ABC Television Group (now Disney General Entertainment Content) in 1996.
May 25, 2022 · After haggling over price, Capital Cities acquired ABC for $3.5 billion. At the time the deal, which one writer likened to a minnow swallowing a whale, was the biggest merger ever outside the...
Murphy's biggest acquisition came in 1985 when he bought the American Broadcasting Company for $3.5 billion to form Capital Cities/ABC. [1] [6] [7] [8] The merger was engineered by Murphy and the man who replaced him as WTEN's station manager, Daniel B. Burke, who became ABC's president.
May 25, 2022 · Ten years after the ABC acquisition, Murphy surprised the business world again with the announcement of the merger of Capital Cities/ABC with The Walt Disney Company. It was a $19 billion...
Oct 27, 2011 · Oct. 26, 2011. Daniel B. Burke, who helped engineer the acquisition of the American Broadcasting Company by Capital Cities, one of the boldest corporate takeovers of the 1980s, and went on to...
Jan 1, 1994 · Capital Cities / ABC, The Early Years, 1954-1986: How the Minnow Came to Swallow the Whale [Walt Hawver] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.
- Walt Hawver
Aug 7, 1995 · NEW YORK -- Walt Disney Co. and Capital Cities/ABC have agreed to merge in a deal valued at about $19 billion. merger ever and the second-biggest takeover in the history of U.S. business,...
