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- BUSINESS, Page 59Business NotesBROADCASTINGTheir Fortune For a Forest
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- When Dorothy Stimson Bullitt of Seattle started King
- Broadcasting in 1946, she bankrolled the venture with her
- family's lumber fortune. Now the radio-and-TV empire is worth
- as much as $650 million, and her daughters want to put the
- wealth back where it came from: the environment. Harriett
- Stimson Bullitt, 65, and Priscilla Bullitt Collins, 69, said
- last week they will place the family-owned company up for sale
- to raise money to protect the Northwest's natural beauty. Their
- empire includes six television stations, six radio stations and
- 13 cable-TV systems.
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- The sale will provide an infusion of cash for the King
- Foundation, which for 30 years has been a contributor to
- environmental groups ranging from the Sierra Club to
- Adopt-a-Stream. "The causes that we're interested in need help
- now, not 10 years from now," explains Bullitt. "Money does the
- most good if you do something preventive, rather than something
- remedial."
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