Milt Grant, 83, Legendary Sock Hop Host
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Milt Grant, who died April 28 at 83, parlayed a stint as disc jockey for Washington’s equivalent of “American Bandstand” into a roller-coaster ride as the head of a dozen independent television stations around the nation.
After he made a killing in the mid-1980s building up and then selling a series of UHF stations in Texas, he became overextended with a series of new stations and declared bankruptcy in 1986. His Grant Broadcasting Company owed creditors more than $300 million, a record at the time for a broadcaster, according to some.
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