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Contents:

• GAYLORD COMMUNITY PRODUCTIONS
• GAYLORD PRODUCTN ACQUIR "HEE HAW'
• GAYLORD PRODUCTN COMPANY
• HISTORY MATTERS: GAYLORD MOTOR CAR COMPANY STARTED 110 YEARS AGO
• EAGLETREE CAPAL ACQUIR LEADG SPECIALTY CHEMIL PRODUCER, GAYLORD CHEMIL
• GAYLORD PRODUCTNS
• CORPORATE MAGIC WS A GALA FOR THE GAYLORD
• CLOSG LOGO FOR SHAEFER KARPF PRODUCTNS, GAYLORD PRODUCTN COMPANY

GAYLORD COMMUNITY PRODUCTIONS

GAYLORD COMMUNITY PRODUCTIONS2023 SEASONFOOTLOOSE.

GAYLORD PRODUCTN ACQUIR "HEE HAW'

CONSIDER BECOMING A SPONSOR OF OUR 2023 SEASONGAYLORD COMMUNITY. 1903: The Gaylord and Dickson fai enter the newspaper publishg bs.

1983: Gaylord purchas Grand Ole Opry and the Opryland Hotel for $250 ln; the Nashville Network is lnched. Company History: Gaylord Entertament Company is a diversified entertament and munitns pany whose holdgs clu the Grand Ole Opry, the Opryland Hotel, and Opry Mills, a massive retail and entertament center Nashville, Tennsee.

Gaylord Entertament also owns three Nashville rad statns and ntrols Christian web s and. The Gaylord and Dickson fai began what would bee the Gaylord Entertament Company the Oklahoma Terrory 1903--Oklahoma would not bee a part of the Unn until 1907.

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Realizg the future potential of rad, which was still s fancy durg the early 1920s, the Gaylords and Dicksons branched out to the broadstg dtry 1928 wh the purchase of WKY-AM, a statn Oklahoma Cy.

Unr the directn of founr Edward Kg Gaylord, Oklahoma Publishg Company prospered durg the early and mid-1900s wh s rad and publishg operatns. Gaylord snapped up several statns, cludg KTVT Dallas, WVTV Milwkee, Hoton's KHTV, and KSTW Seattle; at one pot, the pany was operatg seven statns.

HISTORY MATTERS: GAYLORD MOTOR CAR COMPANY STARTED 110 YEARS AGO

Oklahoma Publishg Company's televisn and rad operatns were anized unr s wholly owned Gaylord Broadstg subsidiary. Bee the pany was privately owned by the Gaylord fay, fancial and operatg data was generally not ma available to the public. Furthermore, the Gaylords led relatively private liv and had a reputatn for keepg a firm grip on the pany.

EAGLETREE CAPAL ACQUIR LEADG SPECIALTY CHEMIL PRODUCER, GAYLORD CHEMIL

Amazgly, Edward Kg Gaylord, who had helped start the pany 1903 at the age of 32, was still actively managg the pany the early 1970s. Gaylord ntued to succsfully oversee the publishg and broadstg bs found by his father.

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But Gaylord also tried branchg out to several new ventur.

CORPORATE MAGIC WS A GALA FOR THE GAYLORD

In the mid-1980s, for example, he ma an unsuccsful bid to purchase the Texas Rangers baseball anizatn--bee of his disda for reporters, Gaylord had his Oklahoma newspapers rry stori (about the failed acquisn) om a Dallas newspaper. The bs foray that would brg Gaylord the greatt amount of succs and would thst his pany to the natnal spotlight was his 1983 purchase of Nashville-based Grand Ole Opry and the Opryland Hotel.

Opryland's vigoro expansn durg the late 1970s and early 1980s ught the eye of Gaylord, who viewed the Opry's broadstg and entertament operatns as a fortable f wh Gaylord Broadstg. When WSM's parent rporatn went huntg for a buyer for the Opry plex, Gaylord ma himself available.

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In September 1983, Gaylord purchased the Opry properti for $250 ln; the transactn would later be lled one of the entertament dtry's better bargas. Although Nashville lols feared that Dallas-based Gaylord Broadstg might start sellg off Opry properti, Gaylord soon allayed their worri.

Gaylord assumed a mimal role the management of Opryland, choosg to leave E. He began reportg to Gaylord after the 1983 acquisn.