MGM Television

MGM Television (First known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television and MGM/UA Television) is an American television production/distribution company that was launched in 1958. In 1982 it became MGM/UA Television after merging with United Artists. In 1986, Ted Turner bought MGM/UA from Kirk Kerkorian, including all of the movies and television shows by MGM/UA. Turner gave Kerkorian all of United Artists and the MGM trademark 74 days later. Turner kept the pre-1986 MGM television shows. The television banner was renamed to MGM/UA Television Productions and the TV distribution arm MGM/UA Telecommunications. MGM/UA Television still kept producing the series Fame until 1987. In 1996, the name was renamed to MGM Television for different television brand labels known as MGM Television Entertainment, MGM Domestic Television Distribution, and MGM Worldwide Television. In 1997, MGM bought Orion Pictures Corporation, The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and Motion Picture Corporation of America from Metromedia. MGM distributed the shows by Filmways, Inc., Orion Television, American International Television, Heatter-Quigley Productions, and Samuel Goldwyn Television. In 2005, Sony Pictures Television distributes the television library from MGM Television and the US television distribution arm of MGM Television suddenly became MGM Worldwide Television Distribution.

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1958 - 1982 - 1986 - Ted Turner - Fame - 1987 - MGM Worldwide Television - Orion Pictures - The Samuel Goldwyn Company - Motion Picture Corporation of America - Filmways, Inc. - Heatter-Quigley Productions - 2005 - Sony Pictures Television

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