Metromedia Producers Corporation: Difference between revisions

'''Metromedia Producers Corporation''' (or often shortened as '''MPC''') was established from [[The Wolper Organization|Wolper Productions]] in 1968 after David L. Wolper broke apart from Metromedia (Wolper Productions was later relaunched in 1970). On March 6, 1986, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (later "[[21st Century Fox]]" and now owned by The Walt Disney Company, the current parent company of [[20th Century Fox]]) acquired MPC and with it, the television stations owned by Metromedia for $3.5 billion. MPC was folded into [[20th Century Fox Television]], Metromedia Square (which was not included in the sale, instead being leased to Fox/News Corp) became "Fox Television Center", and the former Metromedia owned television stations were incorporated as the [[Fox Television Stations Productions|Fox Television Stations]] in April. These programs are now distributed worldwide by [[20th Television]]. With the exception for ''The Merv Griffin Show'', which MPC handled co-production and distribution from 1972 to 1983, which was later transferred to [[King World Productions]] (now "[[CBS Television Distribution]]") and [[Columbia Pictures Television]] (now "[[Sony Pictures Television]]") in 1986.