American Broadcasting Company Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, the American Broadcasting System. Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the "American Broadcasting Company" name from George B. Storer in 1944; its parent company adopted the corporate name American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. Woods retained his position as president and CEO of ABC until December 1949, and was subsequently promoted to vice-chairman of the board before leaving ABC altogether on June 30, 1951. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, which owned San Francisco radio station KGO, bought Los Angeles station KECA from Earle C. Anthony
Edward J. Meeman the Edward J. Meeman Journalism Building. In 1976, the University of Memphis published Meeman's posthumous autobiography oddly titled, "The editorial we: A posthumous autobiography". Edward J. Meeman Edward John Meeman (October 2, 1889 – November 15, 1966) was a crusading journalist who edited, among other publications, the since defunct "Memphis Press-Scimitar" in his adopted home city of Memphis, Tennessee, a position from which he retired in 1962. He began work as a $4 a week cub reporter in his native Evansville, Indiana, but left a multimillion-dollar estate to foster studies of biology, conservation, and the environment. Meeman was born to