Editing Metromedia (section)

===Activities following film sale===
Following the sale of the film business to MGM, Metromedia still owned [[Metromedia Restaurant Group]] (which it had renamed from S&A Restaurant Group, which was acquired from [[Grand Metropolitan]]) in 1990<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bernstein |first1=Charles |title=Conglomerate menace stalks chains |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3190/is_n33_v23/ai_7865531 |website=bnet |access-date=September 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090313235745/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3190/is_n33_v23/ai_7865531 |archive-date=March 13, 2009 |date=August 14, 1989 |url-status=dead}}</ref> as well as Metromedia Fiber Network. The latter went bankrupt a few years later and became [[AboveNet]], while the former went bankrupt in 2008. Metromedia International operated subscription television operators ([[Kosmos-TV]], [[Alma TV]], Ala TV, [[Kamalak TV]]) and private radio stations in Eastern Europe and CIS countries; by 2006 following the sale of most assets, it bought [[Magticom]] in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] to ease financial burden from filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Heidi |title=The Incredible Shrinking Metromedia |url=https://www.forbes.com/2006/10/09/metromedia-kluge-putin-bankruptcy-biz-cz_hb_1010metromedia.html |website=Forbes |access-date=September 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061013024706/https://www.forbes.com/2006/10/09/metromedia-kluge-putin-bankruptcy-biz-cz_hb_1010metromedia.html |archive-date=October 13, 2006 |date=October 10, 2006 |url-status=live}}</ref> Most assets were joint-ventures with government-linked companies.<ref name="KTVscandal">[https://web.archive.org/web/20240909101534/https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/180985 Битвы за "Космос ТВ"]</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Interflo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vGBnAAAAMAAJ |access-date=10 September 2024 |date=2002 | publisher=ABREES Limited }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Interflo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BdNaAAAAYAAJ |access-date=9 September 2024 |date=1996 | publisher=BP.R. Surovell }}</ref> Its [[Kazakhstan|Kazakh]] operations were put in a state of limbo in 2002 due to regulatory issues.<ref>[https://www.rferl.org/a/1343365.html Kazakh Report: March 7, 2002]</ref>