16 Facts About Triangle Publications

Triangle Publications Inc was an American media group based first in Philadelphia, and later in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

Triangle Publications owned cable TV operations in various regions including Suburban Cable TV Co.

Triangle Publications was probably best known for its primary magazine publication, TV Guide.

Triangle Publications maintained TV Guide sales offices in major metropolitan areas throughout the nation.

Triangle Publications merged the regional editions into a single broadsheet in the early 1970s when it moved operations into a new facility in Hightstown, New Jersey.

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Triangle Publications entered the broadcasting industry with the 1947 purchase of WFIL in Philadelphia from the department stores Lit Brothers and Strawbridge and Clothier.

Triangle Publications pioneered the concept of facsimile transmission over an FM band, transmitting its Philadelphia Inquirer as WFIL-FX.

Triangle Publications's WFIL-TV was the first affiliate of the new American Broadcasting Company network.

Triangle Publications had hired Clark in 1952 to be an announcer, and, later, a DJ, on WFIL-AM.

Triangle Publications expanded its broadcast interest during the 1950s and 1960s to include WNHC AM-FM-TV, Binghamton, New York's WNBF AM-FM-TV, Lebanon, Pennsylvania's WLYH-TV, Altoona, Pennsylvania's WFBG AM-FM-TV, and Fresno's KFRE AM-FM-TV.

Triangle Publications's broadcasting operations reflected Walter Annenberg's interest and commitment to education, with the establishment of various over-the-airwaves educational programs and the "Educasting" operation.

In January 1964, Triangle Publications moved its WFIL stations and broadcasting division operations into a new state-of-the-art facility at 4100 City Avenue in the suburban Philadelphia Main Line region.

In 1969, Triangle Publications sold The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News to Knight Newspapers to comply with federal regulations restricting ownership of multiple media outlets within the same market.

Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp had complained that Triangle Publications had used its three Pennsylvania television stations in a smear campaign against him.

Triangle Publications began divesting itself of its broadcasting operations with the sale of the WFIL, WNHC and KFRE stations in 1971 to Capital Cities Communications, followed by the remaining stations in 1972 to Gateway Communications, a new company formed by former Triangle Publications employees.

In 1988, Triangle Publications' remaining assets were sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation for 2.