biography
| name: |
Annenberg, Walter (Hubert)
|
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1908–2002)
|
| biography:
| Publisher and philanthropist, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Inheriting a communications empire that included the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Racing Forum, and broadcasting stations, he founded Seventeen magazine (1944) and the immensely successful TV Guide (1953), besides purchasing The Philadelphia Daily News (1957). A prominent Republican, he served as US ambassador to Britain (1969–74). He assembled a large art collection that he donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and used some of his huge fortune to endow a graduate school of communications at the University of Pennsylvania. |
|
|
