General Tire
-1915: General Tire & Rubber Company established in Akron
-1943: General Tire and Rubber company buys into Yankee Network, eventually acquiring controlling interest and its stations, including WNAC-AM/FM/TV in Boston. The stations continued to operate under the Yankee Network banner.
-1948: General Tire & Rubber forms General Teleradio division, combining Yankee Network stations and a fledgling Boston TV station
-1950: General Tire and Rubber purchases Thomas S. Lee Enterprises Incorporated, doing business as The Don Lee Network, Incorporated. Primary owned stations were KHJ amfmtv LA and KFRC, along with 45 Don Lee affiliates.
-02 May 1951: Following death of Mr. Shepard (11 June 1950), Yankee Network stations sold to Thomas S. Lee Enterprises
-24 July 1952: Stations purchased by General Teleradio, Inc
-December 1952: Bamberger Broadcasting Service/ Company sells WOR amfmtv to General TeleRadio
-1952: General Tire takes control of the Mutual Broadcasting System
-1953: after FCC rules against duopolies, GTR buys Hildreth & Roger's WLAW 680/ 93.7 Lawrence, moving WNAC to 680, selling 1260 slot to Vic Diehm as WVDA and returning the WLAW FM license
-1954: Hughes sells RKO Radio Pictures to O'Neil's GTR for $25M
-12 December 1955: Stations purchased by RKO Pictures as RKO Teleradio. Broadcast and film operations into RKO Teleradio Pictures
-1956: assets include nation's biggest radio network (586-station Mutual Broadcasting System), two regional radio nets (Don Lee Network and Yankee Network); one UHF and five VHF television stations, seven radio stations, a recording company, two music publishing companies and RKO.
-January 1957: RKO Teleradio Pictures renamed RKO Teleradio
-26 November 1957: Desilu pays General Teleradio $6,105,000 for RKO-Pathe Studio and RKO Studios (Gower St). 26 soundstages, 457 furnished office buildings, all physical property (including a diesel locomotive at Union Station).
-1958: RKO Teleradio becomes RKO General
-1961: O'Neil buys Video Independent Theatres, whose "telemovies" was the first commercial attempt at pay TV. As a result, O'Neil began the first large-scale pay TV system, using WHCT-TV
-1984: GenCorp founded as a holding company, a major technology-based manufacturing company headquartered in Sacramento. General Tire soon sold off.
-1985: O'Neil retires
-1987: Continental (f. Hannover 1871) buys General Tire & Rubber (4 US plants in Mexico and partial ownership in African, South American and Asian factories). FCC takes away 14 tv and radio licenses, at equipment-value rates
-1995: name to Continental General Tire Inc
-1999 by Decorative & Building Products & Perf (??) sold off of GenCorp as OMNOVA
-2001: name to Continental Tire North America Inc