On November 8, 1989, Sony Corporation bought Columbia Pictures Entertainment for $3.4 billion and the next day, Sony acquired the Guber-Peters Entertainment Company (formerly game show production company Barris Industries with the library of game shows including The Newlywed Game, The Dating Game, and The Gong Show) for $200 million after hiring film producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters to run the company.
Jon Corzine | Jon Stewart | Jon Pertwee | Jon Anderson | Jon Voight | Jon Krakauer | Jon | Jon English | Jon Bon Jovi | Bernadette Peters | Roberta Peters | Jon Vickers | Jon Lord | Jon Langford | Jon Brion | Tom Peters | Jon Huntsman, Jr. | Jon Faddis | Jon Tester | Jon Ronson | Jon Fishman | Uli Jon Roth | Robert Peters | Jon Foreman | Jon Hendricks | Jon Fosse | Jon St. James | Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | Jon Postel | Jon Lovitz |
Part of the Peters Entertainment family, his father is movie producer Jon Peters, and his mother is Lesley Ann Warren.
As a progressive station, air personalities included Patrick Moore, Don Wright, and "The Kandie Man", a takeoff on Wolfman Jack, handled by Jon Peters.