MTM Enterprises, Inc. (also known as "MTM Productions, Inc.") was an independent production company established in 1969 by actress
Mary
Tyler
Moore (hence the initials of the company) and her then-husband Grant Tinker. The company was formed as a result of an agreement with Moore and the CBS network to produce 22 episodes of a new sitcom, which would become
The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In 1986, MTM launched "MTM Television Distribution". MTM titles had previously been distributed by
Viacom Enterprises (now "
CBS Media Ventures"), and then
Victory Television. MTM was sold to TVS Entertainment (the then-parent company of now-defunct
ITV franchise holder
TVS Television) in July 1988. In 1992, after TVS lost its ITV franchise to
Meridian Broadcasting, it was sold to International Family Entertainment, Inc., owners of The Family Channel, which in turn was sold and merged into Fox Family Worldwide (now "ABC Family Worldwide") in 1997. MTM ceased operations the following year, and its library assets were folded into
20th Century Fox Television (now "
20th Television").
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