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Thomas Sawyer Murphy (May 31, 1925 – May 25, 2022) was an American broadcasting executive, and was chair and chief executive officer of Capital Cities / ABC, Inc. until 1996. Together with fellow Capital Cities executive Daniel Burke, Murphy engineered the acquisition of the American Broadcasting Company in 1986 for $3.5 billion.
May 25, 2022 · Thomas S. Murphy, who as chairman and chief executive of Capital Cities Communications stunned Wall Street in 1985 by acquiring the much larger American Broadcasting Company for $3.5 billion,...
May 26, 2022 · Thomas Murphy, one of the giants of the media industry from the ’70s into the 2000s whose career was a literal business school study, died Wednesday at age 96 at his home in Rye, New York.
May 25, 2022 · Thomas S. Murphy, who served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Capital Cities/ABC for 30 years and oversaw its merger with The Walt Disney Company, died Wednesday, May 25, at his home in Rye, New York. He was 96.
Through successfully acquiring and integrating over 30 media companies (newspapers, TV and radio stations, and publishing houses) including the 1986 pivotal acquisition of American Broadcasting Company, Murphy built a communications giant known for tight financial control and strong, lean management.
May 29, 2022 · Murphy was CEO of Capital Cities, and as Buffett later observed about Murphy, “He has none of those complexities of character that screw other people up and make for irrational behavior.”
May 27, 2022 · Thomas Murphy, who acquired ABC in 1985 as chairman and chief executive of Capital Cities Communications, has died at 96. Capital Cities acquired the network for $3.5 billion and sold it a decade later for $19 billion.
