MTM Productions
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| Corporation | |
| Industry | Television and Film production |
| Fate | Merged with Fox Family Worldwide |
| Successor |
Fox Family Worldwide 20th Century Fox Television |
| Founded | 1969 |
| Defunct | 1998 |
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Key people
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Mary Tyler Moore Grant Tinker |
| Parent |
TVS Entertainment (1988–1992) International Family Entertainment (1992–1997) News Corporation (1997–1998) |
| Divisions | MTM Television Distribution MTM International MTM Home Video |
MTM Enterprises (later known as MTM Enterprises, Inc.) 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.
MTM produced a number of successful television programs during the 1970s and 1980s. Its famous logo featured an orange cat named Mimsie (who was borrowed from a local shelter and then owned by one of the MTM staff, not by Moore and Tinker) inside a circle surrounded by gold ribbons, parodying how Leo the Lion features in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer logo. There have been many different variants of this logo.
All of MTM's shows are now owned by 21st Century Fox through subsidiary 20th Century Fox Television.
Both founders died within two months of each other, with Grant Tinker on November 28, 2016, followed by Mary Tyler Moore on January 25, 2017.
For many years MTM, with CBS, co-owned the CBS Studio Center in Studio City, California, where a majority of their programs were filmed and videotaped. Most of MTM's series aired on CBS.
MTM Enterprises acquired Jim Victory Television in 1986. Victory was the distributor of most of MTM's programming in the syndication market (exceptions included The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show, both originally distributed by Viacom Enterprises). Victory was later reincorporated as MTM Television Distribution, which was folded into 20th Television after News Corporation bought MTM.
Tinker oversaw MTM's operation until leaving the company in 1981 and becoming chairman of NBC. Lawyers backing NBC's then-owner RCA convinced Tinker to sell his remaining shares of MTM. Tinker later regretted leaving MTM, believing that the company started to decline without him.
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