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MTM Enterprises (also known as MTM Productions) was an American independent production company established in 1969 by Mary Tyler Moore and her then-husband Grant Tinker to produce The Mary Tyler Moore Show for CBS. The name for the production company was drawn from Moore's initials.[1]

With MTM, Moore would become one of the first women to own a television production company. MTM became very successful, producing a number of successful television programs during the 1970s and 1980s. Since 2019, The Walt Disney Company has owned all of the company's programs through its subsidiary 20th Television.

History

In 1969, MTM Enterprises was organized by both Mary Tyler Moore and Grant Tinker,[2][3][4] and hired James L. Brooks and Allan Burns to create her sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show.[5] Brooks' show Room 222 has even been credited by the Television Academy Foundation for breaking the "new narrative ground" which developed MTM Enterprises' "major sitcom factories of the 1970s."[6]

In 1971, co-founder Grant Tinker was forced to quit 20th Century Fox Television due to conflicts with how to run MTM, in order to maintain a full-time job at the company.[7]

In 1976, MTM teamed up with Metromedia Producers Corporation to start a variety show, a first for first-run syndication.[8] Earlier that year, the company had hired Bud Rifkin to launch a syndicated division.[9]

In 1977, Ed. Weinberger, James L. Brooks, David Davis, Allan Burns, and Stan Daniels left MTM Enterprises for Paramount Pictures and started the John Charles Walters Company.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Tinker oversaw MTM's operation until leaving the company.

In 1981, Tinker became the chairman of NBC. Lawyers backing NBC's then-owner RCA convinced Tinker to sell his remaining shares of MTM. Moore and Arthur Price, her business manager and company vice president, bought Tinker's shares;[10] Price subsequently was elevated to president. Tinker later regretted leaving MTM, believing that the company started to decline without him.[11]

Most of MTM's programs aired on CBS. For many years, MTM and CBS co-owned the CBS Studio Center in Studio City California, where a majority of their programs were filmed and videotaped.

In 1986, MTM launched its own syndicated arm MTM Television Distribution, to handle off-net syndication of the MTM shows, and subsequently courted to continue its relations with syndicator Jim Victory to sell off-network rights to MTM's shows like Hill Street Blues and WKRP in Cincinnati, all the way up until the late 1980s as part of a contract settlement.[12][13] In 1988, MTM was sold to UK broadcaster and independent station for the South and South East of England TVS Entertainment for $320 million.[11] A year afterwards, MTM Television Distribution began producing its own programming for the first-run syndication market.[14]

After TVS lost its franchise to broadcast on the ITV network to Meridian Broadcasting, a number of American companies (and to a lesser extent, Meridian) were interested in acquiring MTM, with Pat Robertson's International Family Entertainment making the first offer.[15] A small number of shareholders, including Julian Tregar, rejected the offer from IFE. In November, TCW Capital made a bid,[16] but withdrew it a few weeks later after reviewing the accounts of TVS.[17] IFE increased its offer to £45.3 million, but continued to be opposed by Julian Tregar, who blocked the deal on technical grounds, alleging that the offer was too low.[17][18] IFE finally increased the offer to appease the remaining shareholders,[19][20] and on January 23, 1993, their offer of £56.5 million was finally accepted.[21] The deal went into effect on February 1, 1993 (the month after Meridian began its first broadcast).

In 1995, Michael Ogiens, formerly running CBS, as well as his production company Ogiens/Kane Company, joined MTM to serve as president of the company in hopes that MTM would be restored to its independent production glory.[22] The following year, Josh Kane, fellow partner of the Ogiens/Kane Company joined MTM as vice president for the East Coast offices.[23] In 1997, MTM hit layoffs at the syndication unit after the cancellation of the show The Cape.[24]

In 1997, International Family Entertainment was sold to News Corporation, and folded into its subsidiary Fox Kids Worldwide, eventually renamed to Fox Family Worldwide (a joint venture between Fox and Saban Entertainment).[25][26] MTM's library assets however, were transferred over to 20th Television who retained them, even after Fox Family Worldwide was sold to The Walt Disney Company in 2001.[27] Until then, The Pretender and Good News were the last surviving shows to be produced by MTM, as 20th Century Fox Television inherited both shows in 1997 (when News Corporation purchased MTM) and 1998 (when MTM ceased operations) respectively. MTM's library became property of Disney following its acquisition of 20th Century Fox in 2019. Disney holds the rights of most of MTM's shows.

MTM Enterprises also included a record label, MTM Records — distributed by Capitol Records — which was in existence from 1984 to 1988.[28]

Filmography

Television series

Title Genre First air date Last air date Number of Seasons Network Co-production company(s) Note(s)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show Sitcom Template:Start date Template:End date 7 CBS
The Bob Newhart Show Template:Start date Template:End date 6
Rhoda Template:Start date Template:End date 5 First spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Texas Wheelers Template:Start date Template:End date 1 ABC
Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers Template:Start date Template:End date CBS
The Bob Crane Show Template:Start date Template:End date NBC
Doc Template:Start date Template:End date 2 CBS
Phyllis Template:Start date Template:End date Second spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Three for the Road Adventure Template:Start date Template:End date 1
The Lorenzo & Henrietta Music Show Musical-variety Template:Start date Template:End date Syndicated
The Tony Randall Show Sitcom Template:Start date Template:End date 2 ABC (Season 1)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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The Betty White Show Template:Start date Template:End date 1 CBS
Lou Grant Journalism drama Template:Start date Template:End date 5 Third spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show
We've Got Each Other Sitcom Template:Start date Template:End date 1
WKRP in Cincinnati Template:Start date Template:End date 4
Mary Variety Template:Start date Template:End date 1
The White Shadow Sports drama Template:Start date Template:End date 3
The Mary Tyler Moore Hour Variety Template:Start date Template:End date 1
The Last Resort Sitcom Template:Start date Template:End date
Paris Police drama Template:Start date Template:End date
Hill Street Blues Template:Start date Template:End date 7 NBC
Remington Steele Private eye drama Template:Start date Template:End date 5
Newhart Sitcom Template:Start date Template:End date 8 CBS
St. Elsewhere Medical drama Template:Start date Template:End date 6 NBC
Bay City Blues Sports drama Template:Start date Template:End date 1
The Duck Factory Sitcom Template:Start date Template:End date
Mary Template:Start date Template:End date CBS
Fresno Comedy Template:Start date Template:End date miniseries
The Popcorn Kid Sitcom Template:Start date Template:End date
Beverly Hills Buntz Template:Start date Template:End date NBC Spin-off of Hill Street Blues
Eisenhower and Lutz Template:Start date Template:End date CBS
Annie McGuire Template:Start date Template:End date
Tattingers Dramedy Template:End date NBC
FM Sitcom Template:Start date Template:End date
Rescue 911 Reality Template:Start date Template:End date 8 CBS Arnold Shapiro Productions American distribution only, produced by CBS Entertainment Productions
America's Funniest Home Videos Clip Template:Start date Present 32 ABC distribution for pre-2001 episodes only; currently distributed by sister company Disney Entertainment Distribution
City Sitcom Template:Start date Template:End date 1 CBS CBS Entertainment Productions [N 1]
Capital News Journalism drama Template:Start date Template:End date ABC
The Trials of Rosie O'Neill Legal drama Template:Start date Template:End date 2 CBS
Evening Shade Sitcom Template:Start date Template:End date 4 CBS Entertainment Productions, Bloodworth-Thomason Mozark Productions and Burt Reynolds Productions distributed outside of American television by Paramount Global Content Distribution
You Take the Kids Template:Start date Template:End date 1 CBS Entertainment Productions and Paul Haggis Productions [N 1]
The New WKRP in Cincinnati Template:Start date Template:Start date 2 Syndicated
Graham Kerr's Kitchen Cooking Template:Start date Template:End date 3 distribution only
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman Western Template:Start date Template:End date 6 CBS The Sullivan Company American TV distribution only; produced by CBS Productions
Xuxa Educational Template:Start date Template:End date 1 Syndicated Lynch Entertainment
Christy Drama Template:Start date Template:End date 2 CBS The Rosenzweig Company
Snowy River: The McGregor Saga Adventure Template:Start date Template:End date 4 The Family Channel aired on Nine Network in Australia
Boogies Diner Sitcom Template:Start date Template:End date 1 Syndicated Franklin/Waterman and King Street Entertainment [N 1]
Family Challenge Game show Template:Start date Template:End date 2 The Family Channel Woody Fraser Enterprises and Maple Palm Productions
Sparks Sitcom Template:Start date Template:End date 2 UPN The Weinberger Company
The Cape Adventure Template:Start date Template:End date 1 Syndicated Zaloom-Mayfield Productions
The Pretender Science fiction Template:Start date Template:End date 4 NBC NBC Studios season 1 only; distributed outside the United States by NBCUniversal Syndication Studios
Bailey Kipper's P.O.V. Sitcom Template:Start date Template:End date 1 CBS Kipper Productions and Victoria Productions
Shopping Spree Game show Template:Start date Template:End date 2 The Family Channel Jay Wolpert Enterprises
Wait 'Til You Have Kids Template:End date 1
It Takes Two Template:Start date Template:End date Mark Phillips Philms & Telephision
Good News Sitcom Template:Start date Template:End date UPN The Weinberger Company

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Television specials

Title Genre Original air date Network Co-production company(s) Note(s)
Carlton Your Doorman Animated comedy Template:Start date CBS Pilot for proposed spin-off of Rhoda

References

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External links

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  10. ↑ Schwartz, Tony (July 1, 1981). "Silverman Quits At NBC; Tinker to Succeed Him". The New York Times.
  11. ↑ a b Carter, Bill (November 27, 1989). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Tinker Looks Beyond 'USA Today on TV'". The New York Times.
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  15. ↑ "COMPANY NEWS; Pat Robertson Buys Parent Of MTM for $68.5 Million". The New York Times. (September 23, 1992).
  16. ↑ Second potential bidder for TVS. The Times. (London). November 4, 1992.
  17. ↑ a b Evangelist may be sole runner for TVS. Martin Waller. The Times. November 26, 1992.
  18. ↑ TVS bid opposed. The Times. December 11, 1992.
  19. ↑ Evangelist to lift TVS offer. The Times. January 9, 1993.
  20. ↑ TVS dissidents try for a better offer. Martin Waller, The Times. (London). Wednesday, 6 January 1993
  21. ↑ Robertson wins TVS. The Times. January 23, 1993.
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