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This chronology is indicative only.
Context is provided by the broader communications and
media timeline on this site.
1885
Moses Annenberg migrates to US from East Prussia
1906 founds Chicago News Company, acting as distributor
for Hearst
1908 founds Milwaukee News Company
1908 Walter Hubert Annenberg born in Milwaukee
1913 Moses founds International Souvenir Spoon Co
1915 expands into parking, theatres, billiard parlours
and other property in Milwaukee and New York
1917 becomes publisher of Wisconsin Daily News
in Milwaukee
1919 Hearst buys Wisconsin Daily News
1920 Moses moves to New York
1920 Moses buys New York-based Daily Racing Form
for US$400k
1924 buys Elizabeth Times
1925 Philadelphia Daily News founded (later bought
by Annenberg)
1927 buys 50% of General News racing wire service for
US$650k
1929 buys Morning Telegraph
1932 launches Baltimore Brevities, Washington Brevities,
New York Hush, Chicago Hush scandal sheets
1932 launches Screen Guide magazine
1934 founds Nationwide News Service racing wire
1934 buys out partners in General News
1934 buys Miami Tribune
1937 sells Miami Tribune for US$600k
1934 FBI estimates that earnings are US$6m per year
1936 Moses buys The Philadelphia Inquirer for US$10.8m
1937 launches Click photomagazine
1939 Moses indicted for evading $3.26m income tax
1942 Moses dies after release from prison
1944 Walter sells wire services
1944 founds Seventeen magazine
1945 buys WFIL-AM and FM Philadelphia for US$190k
1948 sells theatres for US$1.75m
1948 launches WFIL TV
1948 TV Guide founded in New York by Lee Wagner
1952 Walter buys TV Guide for US$1.5m, and TV
Digest for US$600k
1953 launches TV Guide as national magazine
1953 launches Quick magazine
1954 Quick folds
1957 buys Philadelphia Daily News for US$3m
1962 funds Annenberg School for Communication at Uni of
Pennsylvania
1969 sells Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia
Daily News to Knight for
US$55m
1969 becomes US Ambassador to UK under Richard Nixon
1970 sells nine stations (inc WFIL Philadelphia, Hartford,
New Haven and Fresno) to Capital Cities
for US$110m
1970 sells 7 stations for US$16m
1971 funds Annenberg communications school at University
of Southern California
1973 sells cable operations for US$11m
1973 launches and closes Good Food
1978 TV Guide sells 21m copies per week
1985 relaunches Good Food
1988 sells TV Guide and rest of Triangle to Murdoch's
News for US$3.2bn
2002 death of Walter Annenberg
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