home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=90TT2323>
- <title>
- Sep. 03, 1990: Business Notes:Broadcasting
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 03, 1990 Are We Ready For This?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 59
- Business Notes
- BROADCASTING
- Their Fortune For a Forest
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
-
-