Editing Metromedia (section)

{{Short description|Defunct American media company}}
{{About|the media company|other uses|Metromedia (disambiguation)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2023}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Metromedia, Inc.
| logo = [[File:Metromedia Incorporated logo.jpg|class=skin-invert|220px]]
| type = [[Public company|Public]]
| industry = [[Mass media|Media]]
| fate = Sold off, corporate name continues as owner of MetroMedia Technologies<ref name="mmt">{{cite web |url=http://www.mmt.com/about_us.php |title=About Us |publisher=MetroMedia Technologies |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605071915/http://www.mmt.com/about_us.php |archive-date=June 5, 2011 |access-date=October 3, 2018}}</ref>
| predecessor = [[DuMont Laboratories|Allen B. DuMont Laboratories]]<br>DuMont Broadcasting Corporation<br>Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation
| successor = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] (content library)<br>[[Fox Television Stations]] (broadcast stations)
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1931}} (as Allen B. DuMont Labs)
| defunct = {{End date and age|1997}} (as a media company)
| location = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S.
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people = [[John Kluge|John W. Kluge]] (founder/chairman/CEO)<br>Stuart Subotnick (current president/CEO)<br>William Ishida (president/CEO, Metromedia Technologies, Inc.)
| products = Television<br>Radio<br>Entertainment<br>Advertising
| services = Advertising<br>Media display
| parent = 
| subsid = [[Orion Pictures]]<br>[[The Samuel Goldwyn Company]]<br>[[Motion Picture Corporation of America]]<br>Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation
| footnotes = 
| homepage = 
}}

'''Metromedia, Inc.''' (also often '''MetroMedia''') was an American media company that owned [[radio station|radio]] and [[television station]]s in the United States from 1956 to 1986 and controlled [[Orion Pictures]] from 1988 to 1997. Metromedia was established in 1956 after the [[DuMont Television Network]] ceased operations and its [[owned-and-operated station]]s were spun off into a separate company. Metromedia sold its television stations to [[News Corporation]] in 1985 (which News Corp. then used to form the nucleus of [[Fox Television Stations]]), and spun off its radio stations into a separate company in 1986. Metromedia then acquired ownership stakes in various film studios, including controlling ownership in Orion. In 1997, Metromedia closed down and sold its media assets to [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]].