Edmund Ansin

Ansin inherited a real estate fortune and turned it into a media empire. Working alongside his father, the family paid $3.4 million for Miami's WSVN TV station, where he pioneered the "if it bleeds, it leads" style of TV journalism. He died in July 2020 at age 84. Shoemaker's son used proceeds from Florida real estate investments to buy Miami TV station for $3.4 million in 1962. Eventually added 2 competing Boston stations. Nabbed a third Boston broadcasting unit in 2006; purchased CW Television-affiliated WLVI from Tribune Co. for $114 million. Also owns gobs of real estate.