King Broadcasting Company

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King Broadcasting Company

King Broadcasting Company headquarters and KING-TV studios in South Lake Union, Seattle, 2013. It was the headquarters from 1979 to 2016, when KING-TV moved south to SoDo; it was demolished later that year.
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Broadcast television, Broadcast radio
Founded	June 18, 1946; 78 years ago (1946-06-18)[1]
Founder	Dorothy Bullitt
Fate	Assets split up; name used by Tegna for license holding
Successors	Providence Journal Company Belo Corporation Tegna Inc.
Headquarters	Seattle, Washington , United States
Area served	Western United States
Key people	Patsy Bullitt Collins (Chairwoman) Steven A. Clifford (President & CEO)
Parent	Providence Journal Company (1992–1997) Belo Corporation (1997–2013) Gannett (2013–2015) Tegna Inc. (2015–present)

King Broadcasting Company is an American former media conglomerate founded in 1946 by Dorothy Bullitt. The company was owned by the Bullitt family until it was sold to the Providence Journal Company in 1991; it is currently a subsidiary of Tegna as the licensee for its remaining stations. Based in Seattle, Washington, it began with one AM radio station and grew to include a large group of broadcast television and radio stations as well as a cable television network throughout the Western United States.