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Triangle Publications Inc. was an American media group based first in Philadelphia, and later in Radnor, Pennsylvania. It was a privately held corporation, with the majority of its stock owned by Walter Annenberg and his sisters. Its holdings consisted of newspapers, magazines, and radio stations. After nearly two decades of divestiture, it was folded into News Corporation in 1988. Triangle was formed by Walter Annenberg in 1947 from the assets and properties of the Cecelia Corporation, a company founded by his father, Moses Annenberg, and named for his mother, Sarah "Sadie" Cecelia Annenberg. Cecelia Corporation's assets at the time included the ''Daily Racing Form'', the ''Morning Telegraph'' in New York, and ''The Philadelphia Inquirer''. It came to own numerous other publications, including ''Armstrong Daily''; the ''Philadelphia Daily News''; ''Seventeen'' magazine; ''TV Guide'' magazine; ''Good Food'' magazine; and ''Official Detective'' magazine; as well as television and radio stations including WFIL AM-FM-TV in Philadelphia; WLYH-TV in Lancaster and Lebanon, Pennsylvania; WFBG AM-FM-TV in Altoona and Johnstown, Pennsylvania; WNHC AM-FM-TV in New Haven, Connecticut; WNBF AM-FM-TV in Binghamton, New York; and KFRE AM-FM-TV in Fresno, California. Triangle owned cable TV operations in various regions including Suburban Cable TV Co. in suburban Philadelphia, Empire State Cable TV Co. in New York, and New Haven Cable TV Co. in Connecticut. It also owned ITA Electronics, a broadcasting equipment manufacturer based in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania; McMurray Printers, a small job press printer in Miami; McMurray Publishing Co., Ltd, which published the Canadian editions of ''TV Guide''; Triangle Circulation, which handled the nationwide distribution of Triangle's magazines, as well as those of other publishers; and Educasting, a developer of educational programming. ==Print publications== Triangle's original flagship ventures were ''The Daily Racing Form'', ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' and WFIL. The ''Inquirer'' became Philadelphia's only major morning daily paper in 1947, after the ''Philadelphia Record'' filed for bankruptcy. In 1957, Walter Annenberg acquired the ''Philadelphia Daily News'' and merged its facilities with the ''Inquirers. Triangle was probably best known for its primary magazine publication, ''TV Guide''. Against the advice of his close advisors, Annenberg purchased various local TV listing magazines (TV List, TV Digest, TeleVision Guide, TV Guide) and merged them into one national weekly publication under the name ''TV Guide''. The magazine provided local listings with feature stories and soon became the largest national weekly publication, reaching up to 23 million households at its peak in the 1970s. The 15-cents-per-copy digest-sized publication could be found at every supermarket checkout and generally sold out within a few days. The immediate success of ''TV Guide'' required Triangle to, in the later 1950s, move TV Guide's operations out of a small office on South Broad Street in Philadelphia to a new, sprawling facility at 250 King of Prussia Road in suburban Radnor, Pennsylvania. This new facility housed all aspects of the publication, including managerial, marketing, production, photography, editorial and subscription services. The wrap-around color portion of the magazine was printed at Triangle's state-of-the-art rotogravure plant at 440 North Broad Street in Philadelphia, adjacent to the ''Philadelphia Inquirer'' Building. Triangle Publications also maintained ''TV Guide'' sales offices in major metropolitan areas throughout the nation. Another Triangle success was ''Seventeen'' magazine, a publication started by Annenberg in 1944, featuring fashion tips and advice for teenage girls. ''Seventeen'' was published monthly and, like ''TV Guide'', maintained a strong subscription base. America's horse racing enthusiasts relied heavily on the information and statistics provided in another of Triangle's publications, the ''Daily Racing Form''. Established in 1894 by Frank Brunell, the ''Form'' started as a tabloid with regional distribution and was purchased by Moses Annenberg in 1922. Triangle merged the regional editions into a single broadsheet in the early 1970s when it moved operations into a new facility in Hightstown, New Jersey. The ''Daily Racing Form'' was one of Triangle's most profitable publications. A sister newspaper, ''The Morning Telegraph'', was closed by Triangle during a strike. In the early 1970s, Triangle launched ''Good Food'', a digest-sized publication featuring recipes and feature stories, targeting average households. The magazine was designed and marketed along the same lines as ''TV Guide''. Publication of the magazine was suspended after approximately six months due to minimal interest by consumers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Triangle Publications」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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