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Metromedia (also often '''MetroMedia''') was a media company that owned radio and Television Station s in the United States that existed from the demise of the DuMont Television Network in the 1950s until the formation of the Fox Broadcasting Company in the 1980s . Metromedia could be described as a Television Network , although the stations were largely considered to be independent. The network was owned by John Kluge , who bought the stations (with help from an investment group) in 1956 . Metromedia also owned a TV production company called '''Metromedia Producers Corporation''' (MPC), which produced and syndicated programs and TV movies. Kluge eventually gained ¾ control of the company and sold the stations and MPC to Rupert Murdoch in 1986 for a sum in the billions of dollars; while the former Metromedia stations went on to form the nucleus of the Fox network, MPC was folded into 20th Century Fox Television. The Metromedia name has lived on in other projects by Kluge, though the ventures have been largely unrelated to television. When Kluge bought into Major League Soccer in 1995, the club his operated was named '' MetroStars '' after his company. FORMER METROMEDIA STATIONS Television stations Radio stations (a partial listing) TV series produced and/or distributed by MPC
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