King Broadcasting Company
King Broadcasting Company's headquarters and offices & studios for KING-TV & KONG-TV at 333 Dexter Avenue N, South Lake Union, Seattle, circa 2013. It was the headquarters from 1979 to 2016, when KING-TV moved south to SoDo; it was demolished later that year.
In its place is a new taller building, currently serving as the Seattle offices for Apple Computer | |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Broadcast television, Broadcast radio |
| Founded | June 18, 1946 |
| Founder | Dorothy Bullitt |
| Fate | Assets split up; name used by Tegna for license holding |
| Successors | |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Area served | Western United States |
Key people | |
| Parent | Providence Journal Company (1992–1997) Belo Corporation (1997–2013) Gannett (2013–2015) Tegna Inc. (2015–present) |
| Footnotes / references | |
King Broadcasting Company is an American former media conglomerate founded in 1946 by Dorothy Bullitt. The company was owned by the Bullitt family until it was sold to the Providence Journal Company in 1991; it is currently a subsidiary of Tegna as the licensee for its remaining stations. Based in Seattle, Washington, it began with one AM radio station and grew to include a large group of broadcast television and radio stations as well as a cable television network throughout the Western United States.